Father

Noun

 * 1) A male who sires (and often raises) a child.
 * 2) A term of address for an elderly man.
 * 3) A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
 * 4) The founder of a discipline or science.

Verb

 * 1) To be a father to; to sire.
 * 2)  To give rise to.
 * 3) To act as a father; to support and nurture.

Adjectives for Father
adoptive; doting; implacable; prosaic; crusading; reverend; illustrious; active; improvident; bustling; electioneering; mitered; groveling; virtuous; joyful; ill-tempered; fond; dreadful; peevish; noble; ghostly; banished; honored; earthly; obdurate; hilarious; strenuous; formidable; vain; hollow; heartless; persecuted; imperial; uncowled; stricken; avaricious; spendthrift; unsuspecting; benignant; narrow-praying; blustering; indulgent; worthy; irate; grimy; jaunty; tender; scholarly; venerable; remorseful; impecunious; avaricious; dissolute; judicious; temporal; deceiving; autocratic.

Thesaurus 1
Ambrose of Milan, Athanasius, Barnabas, Basil, Brother, Clement of Alexandria, Clement of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem, Dom, Gregory of Nyssa, Hermas, His Grace, His Holiness, His Reverence, Holiness, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John, John Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Lactantius Firmianus, Luke, Mark, Monsignor, Mother, Origen, Papias, Paul, Peter, Polycarp, Rabbi, Sister, Tertullian, ante-Nicene Fathers, apostle, disciple, evangelist, saint

Thesaurus 2
foster father, found, founder, frame, framer, frater, gallach, generate, generator, genitor, gestate, get, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, governor, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great man, great-aunt, great-uncle, grower, half brother, hatch, important person, inaugurate, inaugurator, inbreed, industrialist, initiate, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institute, institutor, interests, introducer, invent, inventor, journeyman, kid brother, lion, lords of creation, magnate, make, make love, maker, man of mark, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, minister, mogul, mother, motor, mover, multiply, nabob, name, nephew, niece, notability, notable, nuncle, nunks, nunky, occasion, old boy, old man, older, oldest, organizer, originate, originator, outbreed, pa, padre, panjandrum, pap, papa, pappy, parent, parish priest, parson, past master, pastor, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, penitentiary, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, planner, pop, pops, power, power elite, precursor, presbyter, priest, prime mover, primogenitor, primum mobile, procreate, produce, producer, progenerate, progenitor, proliferate, promoter, propagate, raiser, realize, realizer, reproduce in kind, ruling circle, sachem, second cousin, senior, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shaper, shepherd, sire, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, sky pilot, smith, soil, somebody, something, son, spawn, spiritual director, spiritual father, stepbrother, stepfather, stepsister, supporter, the great, the old man, the top, top brass, top people, trace to, tycoon, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, very important person, work, worthy, wright, Establishment, VIP, abba, abbe, affiliate to, agent, ancestor, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, aunt, auntie, author, baron, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, birth, blood brother, brass, brass hat, breed, breed true, brethren, bring about, bring forth, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, builder, cassock, catalyst, cause, causer, celebrity, chaplain, clergyman, conceive, conceiver, confessor, constructor, copulate, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, craftsman, create, creator, crossbreed, cure, dad, daddy, daughter, dean, derive from, designer, deviser, dignitary, dignity, discoverer, do, doyen, doyenne, effect, effector, effectuate, elder, eldest, encourager, engender, engenderer, engineer, establish, executor, executrix, father confessor, father in Christ, figure, filiate to, first cousin, first-born, firstling, forebear, forefather, foster brother.

Etymology
From fader:, from  fæder:, from  (cf. East Frisian foar:, Dutch vader:, German Vater:), from  (cf. Irish athair:, Tocharian A pācar:, B pācer:, Lithuanian patinas: 'male animal').

Synonyms

 * parent

Antonyms

 * mother
 * son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

 * parent

Derived terms

 * Father Christmas
 * Father of Lies
 * Father Time
 * Father's Day
 * fatherhood


 * father-in-law
 * fatherland
 * fatherless
 * fatherliness


 * fatherly
 * forefather
 * godfather
 * grandfather
 * great-grandfather


 * Heavenly Father
 * how's your father
 * like father, like son
 * stepfather

Related terms

 * Father

Anagrams

 * afther
 * fareth

Noun

 * Acholi: abaa
 * Afrikaans: (formal) vader; informal pa
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: adax
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:, والد
 * Aragonese: pai
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܒܐ (’abā’)
 * Hebrew: אבא (’abā’)
 * Armenian:, պապա
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: aita
 * Belarusian: бацька, айцец, тата
 * Bengali: আব্বা, পিতা, বাবা
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: tad, tadoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pare
 * Central Sierra Miwok:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏙᏓ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Min Nan:, , ,
 * Chinook Jargon:
 * Chiricahua: -taa (Chiricahua); -dádé (Mescalero)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: otec, táta, tatínek, taťka, fotr
 * Danish: ,
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fijian: tama
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gooniyandi: ngaboo
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gronings: voa, pabbe
 * Guaraní: úva (túva/ru/itúva)
 * Gujarati: પિતા (pitā)
 * Hawaiian: makua kāne
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, वालिद, बाप, पिदर
 * Hittite: atta
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: patro
 * Igbo: nna
 * Ilocano: ama
 * Indonesian: ayah, bapak, ayahanda
 * Interlingua: patre
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᑖᑕ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Jicarilla: -ka’éé
 * Kamba:
 * Kazakh: әке (əke), көке (köke)
 * Khmer: ឪពុក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: bab, bav
 * Sorani: باوک, باو,
 * Lao: (phöö)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tēvs


 * Lipan: -dádí
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: patfu
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Luxembourgish: Papp
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:, ,
 * Malayalam: അച്ഛന്‍ (atʃtʃhan), പിതാവ്
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maori: matua taane
 * Mbabaram: nganjan
 * Middle Persian:
 * Mongolian: аав, эцэг
 * Mycenaean Greek: 𐀞𐀳:
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Novial: patro
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Old Persian:
 * Old Prussian: tāws
 * Pashto: (plār)
 * Persian: ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: mama, punari
 * Plains Apache: t’aah (-t’á’)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: bab
 * Romani: dad
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: bap
 * Russian:, ,  , батюшка
 * Sardinian: babbu
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Scots: faither, fader
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: отац
 * Roman: otac
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: තාත්තා
 * Slovak: otec (formally, officially), tato (usually used only by children), tatko (usually used only by children), tatíčko, tati (vocative; usually used by children), foter
 * Slovene: oče, očka , tata (dialect), ata  (dialect)
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: tāvas
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: ama,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: அப்பா (appā), தந்தை, அப்பன், அத்தன்
 * Taos: tǫ̏ména
 * Telugu: నాన్న (naanna), తండ్రి (thandri)
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian A:
 * Tocharian B:
 * Tok Pisin: papa
 * Tupinambá:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, отець, тато
 * Urdu:, والد, باپ, پدر
 * Vietnamese:, , , , ,
 * Volapük: fat
 * Võro: esä
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Western Apache: -taa, -taa’
 * !Xóõ: a̰a
 * Yiddish: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Novial: patro


 * Persian:
 * Romani: dad
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: అయ్యా (ayyaa)

Verb

 * Danish: være far for
 * Finnish: siittää (to conceive)
 * German:


 * Hungarian: nemz
 * Portuguese:, procriar


 * Hungarian: nemz


 * Spanish:, ,


 * Spanish: