What (who) is father - definition

MALE PARENT

Paternal; Non-human fatherhood; Fathers; Fatherhoods; Fathership; Dad; Biological father; Fatherhood; Daddie; Natural father; Putative father; Dads; Birth father; Daddy

father

1) an expectant; proud father

2) a foster father; stepfather

3) a father to (he was like a father to them)

4) (misc.) the city fathers; a founding father

Father

·noun A senator of ancient Rome.

II. Father ·vt To provide with a father.

III. Father ·noun A respectful mode of address to an old man.

IV. Father ·vt To make one's self the father of; to Beget.

V. Father ·noun The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

VI. Father ·noun One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

VII. Father ·noun One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

VIII. Father ·noun 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.

IX. Father ·noun One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ;

- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

X. Father ·noun 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.

XI. Father ·vt To take as one's own child; to Adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, ·etc. ).

XII. Father ·noun 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.

father

I. n.

Male parent.

Ancestor, forefather, progenitor.

Creator, maker, originator, author, inventor.

Venerable man (an epithet of honor).

II. v. a.

Beget, engender.

Adopt, become a (moral) father to.

Endow or supply with a father.

Ascribe to a father or author.

Assume the authorship of, become responsible for.

Wikipedia

Father

A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. A biological father is the male genetic contributor to the creation of the infant, through sexual intercourse or sperm donation. A biological father may have legal obligations to a child not raised by him, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive father is a man who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative father is a man whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established. A stepfather is a non-biological male parent married to a child's preexisting parent, and may form a family unit but generally does not have the legal rights and responsibilities of a parent in relation to the child.

The adjective "paternal" refers to a father and comparatively to "maternal" for a mother. The verb "to father" means to procreate or to sire a child from which also derives the noun "fathering". Biological fathers determine the sex of their child through a sperm cell which either contains an X chromosome (female), or Y chromosome (male). Related terms of endearment are dad (dada, daddy), baba, papa, pappa, papasita, (pa, pap) and pop. A male role model that children can look up to is sometimes referred to as a father-figure.

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