father

father
1 noun (C)
1 PARENT a male parent: Ask your father to help you. | Andrew was very excited about becoming a father. | a father of two/three/four etc (=a man with two, three etc children): The driver, a father of four, escaped uninjured.
2 PRIEST a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic church: I have sinned, Father.
3 fathers (plural) people related to you who lived a long time ago; ancestors: We must honour the customs of our fathers.
—see also: forefathers
4 GOD Father a way of addressing or talking about God, used in the Christian religion: our Heavenly Father
5 father figure an older man who you trust and respect
6 the father of sth the man who was responsible for starting something: Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
7 like father like son used to say that a boy behaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad
8 a bit of how's your father BrE informal humorous the act of having sex
—see also: city father, Pilgrim Fathers 2 verb (T)
1 to make a woman have a child: It was rumoured that the bishop had fathered two children.
2 to start an important new idea or system: Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.
father sth on sb phrasal verb (T) especially BrE to claim that someone is responsible for inventing or thinking of something: theories fathered on Freud by his critics

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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  • Father — Fa ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one s self the father of; to beget. [1913 Webster] Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take as one s own child; to adopt;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • father — [fä′thər] n. [ME fader < OE fæder, akin to ON fathir, OHG fater, Goth fadar < IE * pətḗr > L pater, Gr patēr, Sans pitár: ult. origin prob. echoic of baby talk, as in PAPA, Hindi bābū] 1. a man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he …   English World dictionary

  • father — [n1] male person who begets children ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy*, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source; concepts 394,400,414,419,423 Ant. mother father [n2] priest abbé,… …   New thesaurus

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  • father —    This would seem to be the natural term for a speaker to use to his or her father, but whether it is used or not depends on individual family practice, which may in turn be influenced by the social and educational level of the family concerned …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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