Meaning of father | Babel Free

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1. A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
2. God, the father of Creation.
3. A title given to priests.
4. One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
5. To act or serve as a father.
6. A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
7. God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
8. cool, acceptable, easy
9. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
10. the hatred of one’s father. — misopaterist, n.
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11. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
12. One's father.
13. very big, enormous, huge
14. A senator of Ancient Rome.
    historical
15. tending to move toward or centering upon the father. See also matricentric.
16. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
17. 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.
18. to be the father of. King Charles II fathered a number of children. verwek, vader staan vir, verantwoordelik wees vir يُنْجِب ставам баща на ser pai/gerar zplodit, být otcem zeugen være far til είμαι, γίνομαι πατέρας engendrar isa olema سرپرستی کردن siittää engendrer לְהוֹלִיד पिता बनना biti (vladati se kao) otac nemz menjadi ayah feðra; vera faðir (e-s) fare da padre 父となる …의 아버지가 되다 būti tėvu radīt; būt par tēvu menjadi bapa vader zijn van være far til, avle, fostre spłodzić سر پرستی کول ser...
19. A term of respectful address for a priest.
20. the state or condition of being a father. Now that the children are older I am enjoying fatherhood. vaderskap أبُوَّه бащинство paternidade otcovství die Vaterschaft faderskab πατρότηταpaternidad isadus پدری isyys paternitéאבהות पितृत्व očinstvo apaság fungsi ayah faðerni; föðurhlutverk paternità 父であること 아버지로서의 자격 tėvystė tēva stāvoklis menjadi seorang bapa vaderschapfarskapojcostwo پلارولى paternidade paternitate отцовство otcovstvo očetovstvo očinstvo faderskap ความเป็นพ่อ babalık 父親的身份 бать...
21. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
22. like a father. He showed a fatherly interest in his friend's child. vaderlik أَبَوي бащински paternalmente otcovský väterlich faderlig πατρικόςpaternal isalik پدرانه isällinen paternel אַבהִי पिता तुल्य očinski atyai kebapakan föðurlegur paterno 父親のような 아버지다운 tėviškas tēva-; tēvišķīgs sifat kebapaan vaderlijkfaderlig ojcowski پلارولى paternalmente părin­tesc отцовский otcovský očetovski očinski faderlig เหมือนเป็นพ่อ babacan, baba gibi 父親般的 батьківський والد کی طرح như hoặc điển hình cho một n...
23. A pioneering figure in a particular field.
24. the father of one's wife or husband. skoonpa حَمو тът/свекър sogro tchán der Schwiegervater svigerfar πεθερόςsuegro äi پدر زن؛ پدر شوهر appi beau-pèreחם श्वसुर, ससुर tast, svekar após bapak mertua tengdafaðir suocero 義理の父 시아버지 uošvis vīratēvs; sievastēvs bapa mertua schoonvadersvigerfarteść خصر sogro socru тесть; свекор svokor tast svekar ili tast svärfar พ่อตา; พ่อสามี kayın peder 岳父(妻子的父親)，公公(丈夫的父親) свекор; тесть سسر bố vợ; bố chồng 岳父，公公
25. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
26. padre; papá; pop. tata.
27. Something inanimate that begets.
28. A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
29. A member of a church council.
30. A male parent of an animal.
31. The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

Equivalents

Examples

“My father was a strong influence on me.”

“The Pꝛouerbes of Solomon: A wiſe ſonne maketh a glad father: but a fooliſh sonne is the heauineſſe of his mother.”

“When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.”

“Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.”

“My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.”

“Father, dear father Will you be proud of me? I wish I could be Just like you.”

The Borrowers

“Shepard: The bartender over there? Liara: The matriarch hired by the asari government to track my movements? Shepard: She's your father. Liara: I know.”

“Speaking to reporters at Melbourne airport, their fathers thanked supporters and praised efforts from the Australian government, according to Nine News.”

““There was just this opportunity with a father-son dynamic to really nurture,” she said. “If the boys are starting to learn that they’re not supposed to be girls and they’re not supposed to be too much like their mothers, or too close to their mothers, then the father really can step in.””

“My friend Tony just became a father.”

“So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.”

“Therefoꝛe it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the pꝛomiſe might be ſure to all the ſeede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that alſo which is of the faith of Abꝛaham, who is the father of vs all,”

“Come, father; you can sit here.”

“Bless you, good father friar!”

“My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.”

“The child is father to the man.”

“I was a father to the pooꝛe: and the cauſe which I knewe not, I ſearched out.”

“So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and loꝛd of all his houſe, and a ruler thꝛoughout all the land of Egypt.”

“Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.”

“Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]”

“"If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."”

““The Father of All Battles” On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]”

“But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]”

“In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]”

“On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary.”

“Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely.”

“Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.”

“The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.”

“I will only do what Father asks.”

“...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.”

“In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.”

“Father Thomas was a good priest.”

“Father Smith, the social action director of the archdiocese, and Father William Killian, executive editor of the archdiocesan weekly, went to Brownsville, joined the field workers in picketing, attended several rallies, and marched in an eight-mile “pilgrimage.” They were arrested by local authorities for trespassing on private property and sent back to San Antonio. When Fathers Smith and Killian returned to the valley in early 1967 in defiance of Lucey’s specific orders, Lucey removed Smith as social action director and demoted Killian and several other activist priests for violating protocol.”

“On a merchant ship, Father Sinclair had to do safety drills every 10 days. On a fishing vessel, it’s monthly, and there is no requirement to check the log to see if the drill has been done or done correctly.”

“the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers”

“Claudius put a stop to these executions, and the Conscript Fathers, repenting, placed Gallienus among the divi , — which was equivalent to the maintenance of his acts.”

“When Romulus had left the earth and had become a god, the Fathers met together and appointed intermediate kings from the senate, to reign in turn each for five days, in the place of the king, till a new king should be chosen.”

“His duties were to command the army, to perform certain sacrifices (as high priest), and to preside over the assembly of the Fathers of the families, which was called the Senate, i. e. an assembly of old men (Senex).”

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