sire

IPA: sˈaɪɝ

A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

Examples of "sire" in Sentences

Her sire is Big Chief, if you know our racing register.
Your sire is responsible for your guidance, and your level of assimilation with humans depends on him.
She discovers that two of her father's mares are expected to foal -- and the sire was a Hall of Famer named Bold Ruler.
Said she, O my son, thy sire is a merchant and Consul of the merchants in the land of Egypt and Sultan of the Sons of the Arabs.
Thy sire is a knight; &c., &c., making us both start to our feet with a little scream and then fall back again in fits of laughter.
If the Marxist dream of Mr Miliband's sire is dead, Soviet-era production statistics are alive and well at the Department For Education And Skills.
II. i.46 (197,4) _Good Sir_, or so, or _friend_, or _gentleman_] [W: sire] I know not that _sire_ was ever a general word of compliment, as distinct from _sir_; nor do I conceive why any alteration should be made.
Then I thought of my cousin and all the kind offices she had been wont to do me, and I learned when too late that she had truly loved me; so I wept for her and my mother wept also Presently she said to me, “O my son, thy sire is dead.”