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father

English

🔊 God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
“hear our prayers, Heavenly Father”
🔊 a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
“his father was born in Atlanta”
🔊 `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church)
🔊 a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
“the tennis fathers ruled in her favor”
🔊 the head of an organized crime family
🔊 the founder of a family
“keep the faith of our forefathers”
🔊 (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine
🔊 a person who founds or establishes some institution
“George Washington is the father of his country”
🔊 make (offspring) by reproduction
“Abraham begot Isaac”