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.
Sonnoun
One's male offspring.
Sonnoun
A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
Sonnoun
A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
Sonnoun
A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by some external influence.
Sonnoun
A male descendant.
Sonnoun
A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Sonnoun
An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
Sonverb
(transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
Sonverb
(transitive) To address (someone) as "son".
Sonnoun
A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
Sonnoun
A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
Sonnoun
Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other young male dependent.
Sonnoun
A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.
Sonnoun
The produce of anything.
Sonnoun
Jesus Christ, the Savior; - called the Son of God, and the Son of man.
Sonnoun
a male human offspring;
Sonnoun
the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
Son
A son is a male offspring; a boy or man in relation to his parents. The female counterpart is a daughter.