father

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Synonyms: gather, lather, rather, feather, eather, farther, fether, bather, fother, wather, fatter

Antonyms: gather, lather, rather, feather, eather, farther, fether, bather, fother, wather, fatter

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q7565}}A [[male]] [[parent]], especially of a human; a male who [[parents]] a [[child]] (which he has [[sire|sired]], [[adopt|adopted]], [[foster|fostered]], etc.).
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. {{non-gloss|A term of respectful address for an elderly man.}}
4. {{non-gloss|A term of respectful address for a priest.}}
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. A pioneering figure in a particular field.
7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
8. Something inanimate that begets.
9. {{lb|en|Christianity}} A member of a [[church council]].
10. {{lb|en|computing}} The [[archive]]d older [[version]] of a [[file]] that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the [[grandfather]].

Verb

1. To be a father to; to [[sire]].
2. {{lb|en|figuratively}} To give rise to.
3. To [[act]] as a father; to [[support]] and [[nurture]].
4. To provide with a father.
5. To [[adopt]] as one's own.

Proper noun

1. {{lb|en|Christianity}} [[God]], the father of [[creation|Creation]].
2. {{lb|en|Christianity}} [[God the Father]], who eternally begets [[God the Son|the Son]].
3. One's [[father]].
4. {{lb|en|Wicca}} 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]].

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