father

IPA: fˈɑðɝ

A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A pioneering figure in a particular field.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Something inanimate that begets.
(Christianity) A member of a church council.
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
(Christianity) God, the father of Creation.
(Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
One's father.
(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.
(Christianity) A title given to priests.
(Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
(historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.

Examples of "father" in Sentences

"But, father," the Golden Maiden said -- she called him _father_ now and it pleased him mightily; "father, I should rather marry Janko!"
I cannot conscientiously add _father_; for, at a certain early period of her history, the child showed a decided preference for her uncle over her father.
Christ, my Lord, had died for them as well as for me; and here was my father, _my father_ practically saying that they should not hear of it, nor know the message He had sent to them.
Christ, my Lord, had died for them as well as for me; and here was my father -- _my father_ -- practically saying that they should not hear of it, nor know the message He had sent to them.
"Do you mean to tell me," she inquired, with something approaching sternness, "that my father -- _my father_ -- was ever fond of poetry and -- and music, and -- and all that sort of thing?"
'My poor grandfather, Mr Palmer, to save a son, _my father_' -- this was said with infinite sadness -- 'yes, my father, from disgrace, borrowed a sum of money, a very large sum, from the old Squire.
A father might sell his children as servants, i.e. his _daughters_, in which circumstance it was understood the daughter was to be the wife or daughter-in-law of the man who bought her, and the _father_ received the price.
A father might sell his children as servants, i.e., his _daughters_, in which circumstance it was understood the daughter was to be the wife or daughter-in-law of the man who bought her, and the _father_ received the price.