Definition of father

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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..

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Grandmother :: Grandmother (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs..
Procreator :: Procreator (n.) One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.
Begetter :: Begetter (n.) One who begets; a father.
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor..
Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father..
Tresayle :: Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.
Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..
Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
P :: P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M..
Belsire :: Belsire (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor..
Great-grandfather :: Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.
Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time..
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Grand :: Grand (superl.) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..
Fatherland :: Fatherland (n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
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