fathernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɑː.ðər//ˈfɑː.ðɚ/father noun [ C ] (PARENT)
A1 a male parent:
My father took me to watch the football every Saturday.
The children's father came to pick them up from school.
[ as form of address ] formal or old-fashioned Please may I go, Father?
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- My father sends his greetings.
- She idolized her father.
- Tell your father I was asking after him.
- She's nearly as tall as her father now.
- She spoke of her sadness over her father's death.
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Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- grandchild
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- mom-and-pop
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
- your own flesh and blood idiom
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father noun [ C ] (IN RELIGION)
also Father, written abbreviation Fr (the title of) a Christian priest, especially a Roman Catholic or Orthodox priest:
Father O'Reilly
[ as form of address ] Are you giving a sermon, Father?
also Father a name for the Christian God:
God the Father
Our Father, who art in heaven...
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Religious titles
- brother
- eminence
- Fr
- grace
- holiness
- lama
- mother
- Msgr
- pandit
- pope
- rev
- Revd
- right
- saint
- st
- swami
- the Very Reverend
- venerable
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God & gods
Idiom(s)
the father of sth
fatherverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfɑː.ðər//ˈfɑː.ðɚ/to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant:
He's fathered three children.
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Breeds & breeding
- beget
- breed
- breeder
- breeding
- breeding ground
- brood mare
- cross
- crossbreed
- fancier
- hybrid
- inbred
- inbreeding
- interbreed
- pedigree
- pedigreed
- purebred
- selective breeding
- sire
- stud
- thoroughbred