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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Patrician :: Patrician (n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..
Father :: Father (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
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..
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..
Begetter :: Begetter (n.) One who begets; a father.
Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..
Belsire :: Belsire (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor..
Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..
Forefather :: Forefather (n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor..
Tresayle :: Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.
Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Father Longlegs :: Father longlegs () See Daddy longlegs, 2..
Steppe :: Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A great-grandfather.
Papa :: Papa (n.) A child's word for father.
Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Abba :: Abba (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch..
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature..
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