26984 words

fathers

8 definitions • 13 examples
1

Examples:

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?
2

Examples:

Father O'Reilly
[ as form of address ] Are you giving a sermon, Father?
3
a name for the Christian God:

Examples:

God the Father
Our Father, who art in heaven...
4
to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant:

Examples:

He's fathered three children.
5

Examples:

My father retired seven years ago.
6
If you describe a man as the father of something, you mean that he began it, or first made it important:

Examples:

Freud was the father of psychoanalysis.
7
(also Father) The title Father is used by a Christian priest, esp. a Roman Catholic, Episcopal, or Orthodox priest:

Examples:

Father Randall
Are you giving a sermon, Father?
8
to become a father by causing a woman to produce a child:

Examples:

to father twins

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