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
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F. Kennedy
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher
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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