Dad vs. Father

Dadnoun

(informal) A father, a male parent.

Dadnoun

(familiar) Used to address one's father

Dadnoun

(slang) Used to address an older adult male

Dadverb

(transitive) To throw against something; to dash.

Dadnoun

Father; - a word sometimes used by children.

Dadnoun

an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

Fathernoun

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

Fathernoun

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

Fathernoun

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

Fathernoun

A term of respectful address for a priest.

Fathernoun

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

Fathernoun

The founder of a discipline or science.

Fathernoun

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

Fathernoun

A senator of Ancient Rome.

Fatherverb

To be a father to; to sire.

Fatherverb

(figuratively) To give rise to.

Fatherverb

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

Fatherverb

To provide with a father.

Fatherverb

To adopt as one's own.

Fathernoun

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

Fathernoun

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.

Fathernoun

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

Fathernoun

A respectful mode of address to an old man.

Fathernoun

A senator of ancient Rome.

Fathernoun

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.

Fathernoun

One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

Fathernoun

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.

Fathernoun

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

Fatherverb

To make one's self the father of; to beget.

Fatherverb

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.).

Fatherverb

To provide with a father.

Fathernoun

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);

Fathernoun

the founder of a family;

Fathernoun

`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

Fathernoun

(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

Fathernoun

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization;

Fathernoun

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;

Fathernoun

a person who founds or establishes some institution;

Fathernoun

the head of an organized crime family

Fatherverb

make children;

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.