Sekirov Dictionary

father

UK /ˈfɑː.ðə/US /ˈfɑ.ðəɹ/

noun 14
verb 5
forms 5

noun14

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a man who has a child, either by birth or by taking the child into his family
- My father was a strong influence on me.
- My friend Tony just became a father.
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A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
- The child is father to the man.
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A title given to priests.
- Father Thomas was a good priest.
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A term of respectful address for a priest.
- Bless you, good father friar! — 1603
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A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
Something inanimate that begets.
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid. — 1611
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Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- 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 […] — 1991
A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
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One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
- the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers
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A member of a church council.
- In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […] — 2003
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A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- Come, father; you can sit here.
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(historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.
- 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. — 1886
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The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather. — 2007

verb5

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To be a father to; to sire.
- Well go too, we'll haue no Bastards liue, / Especially since Charles must Father it. — 1591
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(figurative) To give rise to.
- Cowards father Cowards & Base things Syre Bace — 1611
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To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Master thee: — 1611
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To adopt as one's own.
- Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ. — 1713
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To provide with a father.
- Thinke you, I am no stronger then my Sex / Being so Father'd, and so Husbanded? — 1599

forms

fathered · fathering · fathers · Fathers · fathren

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