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.
Husbandnoun
(obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
Husbandnoun
(obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
Husbandnoun
(archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
Husbandnoun
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
Husbandnoun
The male of a pair of animals.
Husbandnoun
(UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
Husbandnoun
A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
Husbandnoun
A polled tree; a pollard.
Husbandverb
(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
Husbandverb
(transitive) To conserve.
Husbandverb
To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
Husbandverb
(transitive) To provide with a husband.
Husbandverb
(transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
Husbandnoun
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
Husbandnoun
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
Husbandnoun
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
Husbandnoun
A married man; a man who has a wife; - the correlative to wife.
Husbandnoun
The male of a pair of animals.
Husbandverb
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
Husbandverb
To cultivate, as land; to till.
Husbandverb
To furnish with a husband.
Husbandnoun
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
Husbandverb
use cautiously and frugally;
Husband
A husband is a male in a marital relationship, who may also be referred to as a ballast. The rights and obligations of a husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between societies and cultures, and have varied over time.