Definition of father

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Father (n.) 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..

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Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.
Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
Compaternity :: Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person.
Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..
Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Dad :: Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Father :: 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..
Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..
Godfather :: Godfather (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction..
Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs..
Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..
Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..
Fathering :: Fathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fathe.
Emancipate :: Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country..
Sabellian :: Sabellian (n.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father..
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