Father in Old English – English-Old English Dictionary
father
/ˈfɑː.ðɚ/, /ˈfaː.ðə/, /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/, ˈfɑːðə(r); verb, noun;
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fæder
noun masculine
male parent
A male parent.
A male who sires (and often raises) a child.
A term of address for an elderly man.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
The founder of a discipline or science.
To be a father to; to sire.
(figuratively) To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
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.
The founder of a discipline or science.
A senator of Ancient Rome.
To be a father to; to sire.
To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one’s own.
male parent
term of address for an elderly man
to sire
to give rise to
The head of an organized crime family.
father (quoting term)
father (address term)
father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)
A person that has founded or originated, as in ”the father of our country”
A male parent.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); “his father was born in Atlanta”
a person who founds or establishes some institution; “George Washington is the father of his country”
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; “the tennis fathers ruled in her favor”; “the city fathers endorsed the proposal”
the founder of a family; “keep the faith of our forefathers”
the head of an organized crime family
make (offspring) by reproduction; “Abraham begot Isaac”; “John fathered four daughters”
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father ( third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)
lp liczba pojedyncza father; lm liczba mnoga ~s father, ~ed, ~ed; he ~s; be ~ing
father ( plural fathers)
noun
father (plural fathers)
verb
father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)
Father
proper, noun;
(Christianity) God, the father of Creation
A title given to priests.
One’s father
God, the father of Creation
A title given to priests.
One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
One’s father.
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.
The Superior Being, the Creator, the Spirit because of which and in whom everything is, as He is being named by monotheists, mostly Jews and Christians.
term of address for a Christian priest
(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
`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
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; “hear our prayers, Heavenly Father”
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