father

Definitions of father in various dictionaries:

noun - a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

noun - the founder of a family

noun - `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church)

noun - (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine

noun - a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

noun - God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

noun - a person who founds or establishes some institution

noun - the head of an organized crime family

verb - make children

A man who begets or raises or nurtures a child.

A male parent of an animal.

A male ancestor.

A man who creates, originates, or founds something: Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.

An early form; a prototype.

God.

The first person of the Christian Trinity.

An elderly or venerable man.

A member of the senate in ancient Rome.

One of the leading men, as of a city: the town fathers.

A church father.

Fr.

A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.

Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman’s name.

To procreate (offspring) as the male parent.

To act or serve as a father to (a child).

To create, found, or originate.

To acknowledge responsibility for.

To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.

To act or serve as a father.

verb - to cause to exist

FATHER - A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social rel...