1. (noun) father, male parent, begetter
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
Synonyms: father, founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: mother, female parent
2. (noun) forefather, father, sire
the founder of a family
Synonyms: father, founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: mother, female parent
3. (noun) Father, Padre
`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
Synonyms: military chaplain, founding father, founder, forefather, sky pilot, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: mother, female parent
4. (noun) Church Father, Father of the Church, Father
(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
Synonyms: founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: female parent, mother
5. (noun) father
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
Synonyms: founding father, founder, forefather, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: female parent, mother
6. (noun) Father, Father-God, Fatherhood
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
Synonyms: founding father, founder, forefather, sire, paternity, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: female parent, mother
7. (noun) founder, beginner, founding father, father
a person who founds or establishes some institution
Synonyms: male parent, father, laminitis, founder, forefather, founding father, novice, initiate, sire, tyro, beginner, don, begetter, tiro
Antonyms: mother, female parent
8. (verb) don, father
the head of an organized crime family
Synonyms: sire, father, founding father, founder, forefather, preceptor, beginner, don, begetter, male parent
Antonyms: female parent, mother
9. (verb) beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
make children
Synonyms: take, cause, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, become, sustain, receive, scram, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, spawn, beat, return, set about, get down, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, fuss, start, arrest, fetch, give, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, breed, capture, find, baffle, produce, start out, pose, vex, aim, perplex, stupefy, gravel, begin, render, father, commence, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, pay off, bugger off, overprotect, yield, nonplus
Antonyms: mother, female parent
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