father

father
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noun
ADJECTIVE
lone (esp. BrE), single

As a single father, he found it a struggle bringing up three children.

married, unmarried

a married father of two

divorced
widowed
absent, absentee, estranged
long-lost

Ryan has gone looking for his long-lost father.

biological, natural, real, true
adoptive, foster
second, surrogate

I always thought of you as a second father.

Elena's brother was a surrogate father to her kids after her husband died.

expectant

He paced like an expectant father.

new

Meet your new father.

The new father took his son into his arms.

doting, proud

He has just become the proud father of a baby girl.

young
ageing/aging, elderly, old
ailing, dying, sick

He has an ailing father and two younger brothers to support.

dead, deceased, late
grieving

the grieving father of two children lost at sea

caring, devoted, good, great, loving, responsible, wonderful

He is very good with children and would make a devoted father.

He was a wonderful father to her.

beloved, dear

She kept the books that had belonged to her beloved father.

bad

He was both a bad husband and a bad father.

distant

He had a domineering mother and a cold, distant father.

domineering, overbearing, overprotective, strict
abusive, alcoholic, drunken, violent
famous

He followed the footsteps of his famous father into the film industry.

doctor, engineer, immigrant, etc.

Their musician father encouraged their love of music.

VERB + FATHER
resemble, take after

The two boys were like their mother in character, but Louise took after her father.

follow, succeed

She followed her father into the legal profession.

He succeeded his father as Professor of Botany.

inherit sth from

She inherited the urge to travel from her father.

honour/honor, love, obey, respect

Try your best to honor your father.

lose

I lost my father when I was nine.

bury

I buried my father, and mourned his death.

FATHER + NOUN
figure

Some of his students regard him as a father figure.

PHRASES
a father of two, etc.

Smith, a father of two, was arrested on charges of theft.

father to sb

Jesse is now married and father to a young son.

follow in your father's footsteps

He followed in his father's footsteps and became a motor mechanic.

from father to son

The land passes on from father to son.

the death of your father, the loss of your father
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verb
Father is used with these nouns as the object: ↑child

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  • Father — Fa ther (f[aum] [th][ e]r), n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. fa[eth]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. path r, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[=a] protect. [root]75, 247. Cf. {Papa},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Father — Fa ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one s self the father of; to beget. [1913 Webster] Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take as one s own child; to adopt;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • father — ► NOUN 1) a male parent. 2) an important figure in the origin and early history of something: Pasteur, the father of microbiology . 3) literary a male ancestor. 4) (often as a title or form of address) a priest. 5) (the Father) (in Christian… …   English terms dictionary

  • Father MC — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Father MC es un cantante de new jack swing y hip hop, que entró en el panorama musical con el hit I ll Do 4 U en el año 1990, dentro de su disco debut Father s Day . Dos años después, editó Close to you otro de sus… …   Wikipedia Español

  • father — [fä′thər] n. [ME fader < OE fæder, akin to ON fathir, OHG fater, Goth fadar < IE * pətḗr > L pater, Gr patēr, Sans pitár: ult. origin prob. echoic of baby talk, as in PAPA, Hindi bābū] 1. a man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he …   English World dictionary

  • father — [n1] male person who begets children ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy*, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source; concepts 394,400,414,419,423 Ant. mother father [n2] priest abbé,… …   New thesaurus

  • father — index generate, originate, parents, primogenitor, propagate (increase), reproduce Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • Father — Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Father (disambiguation), Dad (disambiguation), Fatherhood (disambiguation), and Fathering (journal). Father with child A father is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring …   Wikipedia

  • father —    This would seem to be the natural term for a speaker to use to his or her father, but whether it is used or not depends on individual family practice, which may in turn be influenced by the social and educational level of the family concerned …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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