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单词 father
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father

noun
 
/ˈfɑːðə(r)/
/ˈfɑːðər/
Idioms
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  1.  
    a male parent of a child or an animal; a person who is acting as the father to a child
    • My father died in 2017.
    • Ben's a wonderful father.
    • Our new boss is a father of three (= he has three children).
    • father to somebody You've been like a father to me.
    • He was a wonderful father to both his natural and adopted children.
    • I never met my biological father.
    • (old-fashioned) Father, I cannot lie to you.
    see also godfather, grandfather, stepfather
    Extra Examples
    • Boland, a father of two, was arrested on charges of theft.
    • Elena's brother was a surrogate father to her kids after her husband died.
    • He followed in his father's footsteps and became a motor mechanic.
    • He followed the footsteps of his famous father into the film industry.
    • He had a domineering mother and a cold, distant father.
    • He has an ailing father and two younger brothers to support.
    • He has just become the proud father of a baby girl.
    • He is very good with children and would make a devoted father.
    • He paced like an expectant father.
    • He succeeded his father as Professor of Botany.
    • He was both a bad husband and a bad father.
    • I always thought of you as a second father.
    • I buried my father, and mourned his death.
    • I lost my father when I was nine.
    • Jesse is now married and father to a young son.
    • Meet your new father.
    • Ryan has gone looking for his long-lost father.
    • She followed her father into the legal profession.
    • She inherited the urge to travel from her father.
    • She kept the books that had belonged to her beloved father.
    • Some of his students regard him as a father figure.
    • The land passes on from father to son.
    • The new father took his son into his arms.
    • The two boys were like their mother in character, but Louise took after her father.
    • Their musician father encouraged their love of music.
    • Try your best to honor your father.
    • a married father of two
    • the grieving father of two children lost at sea
    Topics Family and relationshipsa1, Life stagesa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • lone
    • single
    • married
    verb + father
    • resemble
    • take after
    • follow
    father + noun
    • figure
    phrases
    • a father of two, etc.
    • father to somebody
    • follow in your father’s footsteps
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  2. fathers
    [plural] (literary) a person’s ancestors (= people who are related to you who lived in the past)
    • the land of our fathers
    see also forefather
  3. father (of something) the first man to introduce a new way of thinking about something or of doing something
    • Henry Moore is considered to be the father of modern British sculpture.
    see also founding father, city father
  4. Father
    used by Christians to refer to God
    • Father, forgive us.
    • God the Father
  5. Father
    (abbreviation Fr)
    the title of a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
    • Father Dominic
    see also Holy FatherTopics Religion and festivalsc1
  6. Word OriginOld English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr.
Idioms
from father to son
  1. from one generation of a family to the next
like father, like son
  1. (saying) used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father
old enough to be somebody’s father/mother
  1. (disapproving) very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)
the wish is father to the thought
  1. (saying) we believe a thing because we want it to be true

father

verb
/ˈfɑːðə(r)/
/ˈfɑːðər/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they father
/ˈfɑːðə(r)/
/ˈfɑːðər/
he / she / it fathers
/ˈfɑːðəz/
/ˈfɑːðərz/
past simple fathered
/ˈfɑːðəd/
/ˈfɑːðərd/
past participle fathered
/ˈfɑːðəd/
/ˈfɑːðərd/
-ing form fathering
/ˈfɑːðərɪŋ/
/ˈfɑːðərɪŋ/
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  1. father somebody to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant
    • He claims to have fathered over 20 children.
  2. father something to create new ideas or a new way of doing something
  3. Word OriginOld English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr.
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