FATHER vs OLD: NOUN
- In general, any real or apparent generating cause or source; that which gives rise to anything; a mainspring or moving element in a system or a process: as, “the boy is father of the man.”
- One who creates, invents, originates, or establishes anything; the author, former, or contriver; a founder, director, or instructor; the first to practise any art; specifically, in the plural, the authors, founders, or first promoters of any great work, movement, or organization: as, Gutenberg was the father of printing; the fathers of the church (which see, below); the pilgrim fathers (see pilgrim); the fathers of the American Constitution.
- In universities, originally, a regent master fulfilling certain functions toward an inceptor; now, a fellow of a college appointed to attend a university examination in the interest of the students of that college.
- The eldest member of any profession, or of any body: as, father of the bar (the oldest practitioner of law); father of the House of Representatives or of the House of Commons (the man who has been a member of the body for the longest continuous period).
- The title of a senator in ancient Rome. See conscript fathers, under conscript.
- A member of one of various Roman Catholic fraternities: as, Fathers of the Oratory, etc.
- A title given to dignitaries of the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, to officers of monasteries and commonly to monks in general, and to confessors and priests.
- A respectful title bestowed on a venerable man; an appellation of reverence or honor: as, Father Abraham.
- [capitalized] In orthodox Christian phraseology, the first person of the Trinity.
- [capitalized] The Supreme Being.
- One who exercises paternal care over another; a fatherly protector or provider.
- One who through marriage or adoption occupies the position of a male parent; a father-in-law; a stepfather.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a lineal male ancestor, especially the first ancestor; the progenitor or founder of a race, family, or line: as, Ishmael was the father of the Bedouins of the desert.
- He who begets a child; the nearest male ancestor; a male parent: so called in relation to the child.
- The Sultan of Turkey.
- Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
- A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
- A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
- A church father.
- One of the leading men, as of a city.
- An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
- The first person of the Christian Trinity.
- God.
- A man who serves or is thought of as a protector.
- A man who creates, originates, or founds something.
- A male ancestor.
- A male parent of an animal.
- A man who raises a child.
- A man who adopts a child.
- A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
- A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
- A person who founds or establishes some institution
- (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
- The founder of a family
- The head of an organized crime family
- A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- `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
- A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
- Former times; yore.
- Old people considered as a group. Used with the.
- An individual of a specified age.
- Past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
FATHER vs OLD: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Used to express affection or familiarity.
- Used as an intensive.
- Having become simpler in form and of lower relief. Used of a landform.
- Having become slower in flow and less vigorous in action. Used of a river.
- Being the earlier or earliest of two or more related objects, stages, versions, or periods.
- Belonging to or being of an earlier time.
- Belonging to a remote or former period in history; ancient.
- Skilled or able through long experience; practiced.
- Known through long acquaintance; long familiar.
- Exhibiting the effects of time or long use; worn.
- Having lived or existed for a specified length of time.
- Having or exhibiting the wisdom of age; mature.
- Having or exhibiting the physical characteristics of age.
- Of or relating to a long life or to people who have had long lives.
- Made long ago; in existence for many years.
- Relatively advanced in age.
- Having lived or existed for a relatively long time; far advanced in years or life.
- Just preceding something else in time or order
- Old in experience
- Of a very early stage in development
- Of an earlier time
- Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'
- Of long duration; not new
FATHER vs OLD: VERB
- Make children
- N/A
FATHER vs OLD: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To act or serve as a father.
- To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.
- To create, found, or originate.
- To act or serve as a father to (a child).
- To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
- N/A
FATHER vs OLD: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To provide with a father.
- 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.).
- To make one's self the father of; to beget.
- N/A
FATHER vs OLD: OTHER WORD TYPES
- The best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome
- In the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church
- Make (offspring) by reproduction
- To ascribe or charge to one as his offspring or production; fix the generation or authorship of: with on or upon.
- To give a father to; furnish with a father.
- To assume as one's own; profess or acknowledge one's self to be the owner or author of.
- To acknowledge or treat as a son or daughter; act as a father toward.
- To beget as a father; become the father or progenitor of.
- (used informally especially for emphasis)
- Not new
- Of long duration
- Excellent
- Belonging to some prior time
- Skilled through long experience
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
- Past times
- A man having habits or opinions considered peculiar to old women.
- A full-grown male kangaroo.
- In mining, ancient workings: a term used in Cornwall.
- The form of black letter used by English printers of the sixteenth century.
- The mass of land comprising Europe, Asia, and Africa, in contradistinction to the new continent, consisting of North and South America.
- Great; high: an intensive now used only when preceded by another adjective also of intensive force: as, a fine old row; a high old time.
- Old-fashioned; of a former time; hence, antiquated: as, an old fogy.
- Long known; familiar; hence, an epithet of affection or cordiality: as, an old friend; dear old fellow; old boy.
- Former; past; passed away; disused; contrasted with or replaced by something new as a substitute; subsisting before something else: as, he built a new house on the site of the old one; the old régime; a gentleman of the old school; he is at his old tricks again.
- Early; pertaining to or characteristic of the earlier or earliest of two or more periods of time or stages of development: as, Old English; the Old Red Sandstone.
- Ancient; antique; not modern; former: as, the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.
- Dating or reaching back to antiquity or to former ages; subsisting or known for a long time; long known to history.
- Well-worn; effete; worthless; trite; stale: expressing valuelessness, disrespect, or contempt: as, an old joke; sold for an old song.
- Hence — That has long existed or been in use, and is near, or has passed, the limit of its usefulness; enfeebled or deteriorated by age; worn out: as, old clothes.
- Not new, fresh, or recent; having been long made; having existed long: as, an old house; an old cabinet.
- Of (some specified) standing as regards continuance or lapse of time.
- Experienced; habituated: as, an old offender; old in vice or crime.
- Of long standing or continuance.
- Having the judgment or good sense of a person who has lived long and has gained experience; thoughtful; sober; sensible; wise: as, an old head on young shoulders.
- Of or pertaining to the latter part of life; peculiar to or characteristic of those who are, or that which is, well advanced in years.
- Of (a specified) age; noting the length of time or number of years that one has lived, or during which a thing or particular state of things has existed or continued; of the age of; aged: as, a child three months old; a house a century old.
- Having lived or existed a long time; full of years; far advanced in years or life: applied to human beings, lower animals, and plants: as, an old man; an old horse; an old tree.
- A pivoted attachment of a pump-rod to a bell-crank.
- In physical geography, far advanced in the geographical cycle: noting a stage in which land-forms have been reduced to small relief and in which all processes of erosion and transportation have become relatively inactive.
FATHER vs OLD: RELATED WORDS
- Beginner, Male parent, Father god, Church father, Bring forth, Beget, Get, Sire, Founder, Founding father, Padre, Begetter, Forefather, Mother, Mother
- Senile, Doddering, Aging, Venerable, Antiquated, Nonagenarian, Past, Antique, Rusty, Doddery, Hoary, Oldish, Sexagenarian, Octogenarian, Aged
FATHER vs OLD: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Engender, Beginner, Male parent, Church father, Bring forth, Beget, Get, Sire, Founder, Founding father, Padre, Begetter, Forefather, Mother, Mother
- Senile, Doddering, Aging, Venerable, Antiquated, Nonagenarian, Past, Antique, Rusty, Doddery, Hoary, Oldish, Sexagenarian, Octogenarian, Aged
FATHER vs OLD: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Show a picture representing the prodigal son and ask how the father in the story is like our Heavenly Father.
- Acknoledgement of Paternity, the legally presumed father can be replaced by the biological father on the birth certificate.
- Are there forms to disestablish the wrong father and establish the correct father at the same time?
- Even though the son rebels against his father, when he returns, broken and repentant, his father joyfully has mercy on him.
- Russian Father Christmas, is now considered to be her Grandfather rather than her father, as in the old story.
- First, my father led me from behind and I was riding on my father.
- But we will be getting the required amount as gift deeds from my father and father in law.
- Father, and that the Father is in me?
- League to the following: youngest father present, Brian Harper; oldest father present, Thedford Wood; and father with the most children present, Alan Price.
- Father Sullivan, Father Sharp, Father Downing, Sister Mary Elizabeth and Sister George!
- But even the old process was more complicated than the old Hawaiian and Aloha interisland system.
- Make a decorative wall hangings with old barn wood and other Old West Items like handcuffs or barbed wire.
- Did you ever wonder How old is too old for your kid to be in the stroller?
- Old Testament was valid up until Christ came, but at that time became old and outdated.
- Scoop up those old home movies or old photo albums and have them digitized.
- OLD BRADFORD BUZZARDS HOCKEY CLUB OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA, OTTAWA DIOCESE INC.
- As Rabelais says, there are more old drunkards than old doctors.
- Give cash back offer to old user also, old user should get offer on regukar basis it will help you to encourage old user.
- Old Flame Tower, Old Hwacha, Oil for Old Flame Tower, and Old Hwacha Arrows from the Guild Shop Purchase list.
- OLD DURHAM ROAD PIONEER CEMETERY COMMITTEE OLD ERINDALE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OLD FACTORY THEATRE, LONDON INC.
FATHER vs OLD: QUESTIONS
- Who is the father of Microbiology and protozoology?
- Why is Durkheim considered the father of Sociology?
- What happened to father Kastner in 'the Conjuring'?
- Is Prince Andrew's father Lord Porchester the Queen's biological father?
- What do you say to your step father on father's day?
- Does Ellie know Morgan's father is not her biological father?
- Is Sean Astin's father really not his father after all?
- Who was the father of Samantha's Father on Bewitched?
- Why did Benita's father stare at her father blankly?
- What happened to Madeleine McCann's Father Father Pacheco?
- How are revaluation accounts transferred to old partners?
- How old was Prettyman when she released twentytwentythree?
- How old is Christopher Bill from classical trombone?
- What are millennials already know about growing old?
- What language was Old English heavily influenced by?
- What is Twitter old information and search history?
- Who fulfilled all Old Testament messianic prophecy?
- When were the Old Testament apocrypha added to the Old Latin?
- How old was Tatum O'Neal when she was 10 years old?
- How old do you have to be to work at Old Country Buffet?