father
/หfษหรฐษ(ษน)/IPA: /F AA1 DH ER0/
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A (generally human) male who begets a child.
โMy father was a strong influence on me.โ
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
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A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
โCome, father; you can sit here.โ
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A term of respectful address for a priest.
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A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
โMy brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.โ
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The founder of a discipline or science.
โAlbert Einstein is the father of modern physics.โ
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Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
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Something inanimate that begets.
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A senator of Ancient Rome.
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To be a father to; to sire.
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To give rise to.
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To act as a father; to support and nurture.
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To provide with a father.
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To adopt as one's own.
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