Definition of Father

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Father

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

A respectful mode of address to an old man.

A senator of ancient Rome.

A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

To make one's self the father of; to beget.

To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).

To provide with a father.

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Father Quotations

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Joel Osteen

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F. Kennedy

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

Father Translations

father in Afrikaans is pa
father in Danish is fader, far
father in Dutch is pater, vaartje, papa, vader, ouder
father in German is Vater
father in Italian is padre, babbo
father in Latin is gigno (genuit), abbas abbatis, pater patris
father in Norwegian is far
father in Portuguese is pai
father in Spanish is padre
father in Swedish is far, pappa, fader

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