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father - noun

  • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
  • the founder of a family
  • `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
  • (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
  • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
  • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
  • a person who founds or establishes some institution
  • the head of an organized crime family

    • father - verb

    • make children

    father - thesaurus

    beget   begetter   beginner   don   engender   fatherhood   forefather   founder   generate   get   mother   padre   sire  


    View spelling list Other ways of spelling the /ar/ sound and learn about the word father in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 10. Spelling choices for /ar/ sound; ar, a.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Family

    Scrabble score for father

    f is 4 a is 1 t is 1 h is 4 e is 1 r is 1
    Scrabble score = 12

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