Definition of Father

• 1. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) Noun
• 2. The founder of a family Noun
• 3. 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 Noun
• 4. (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 Noun
• 5. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization Noun
• 6. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity Noun
• 7. A person who founds or establishes some institution Noun
• 8. The head of an organized crime family Noun
• 9. Make (offspring) by reproduction Verb

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Synonyms for word "father"

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Hyponims for word "father"