Definition of father

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Father (n.) 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..

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Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..
Patrician :: Patrician (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians..
Putative :: Putative (a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child..
Correlate :: Correlate (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative..
Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses..
Typhon :: Typhon (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him..
Paternity :: Paternity (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child..
Label :: Label (n.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living..
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..
After :: After (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father..
Belsire :: Belsire (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor..
Favor :: Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father..
Peculium :: Peculium (n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
Motherland :: Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Homoousian :: Homoousian (n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian..
Patripassian :: Patripassian (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian..
Father :: Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent..
Person :: Person (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis..
Father :: Father (n.) 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..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..
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