FATHER vs PARENTS: NOUN
- 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.
- The first person of the Christian Trinity.
- An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
- God.
- 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)
- A man who serves or is thought of as a protector.
- 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.
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
- One's mother and father
- Plural form of parent.
- A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
FATHER vs PARENTS: VERB
- Make children
- Bring up
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parent.
FATHER vs PARENTS: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
- 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).
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FATHER vs PARENTS: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To make one's self the father of; to beget.
- 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 provide with a father.
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FATHER vs PARENTS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- 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.
- 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 beget as a father; become the father or progenitor of.
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FATHER vs PARENTS: RELATED WORDS
- Beginner, Male parent, Father god, Church father, Bring forth, Beget, Get, Sire, Founder, Founding father, Padre, Begetter, Forefather, Mother, Mother
- Relatives, Dad, Father, Families, Guardians, Fathers, Dads, Mothers, Mother, Siblings, Children, Rear, Bring up, Nurture, Raise
FATHER vs PARENTS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Engender, Beginner, Male parent, Church father, Bring forth, Beget, Get, Sire, Founder, Founding father, Padre, Begetter, Forefather, Mother, Mother
- Adults, Caregivers, Family, Relatives, Dad, Father, Families, Guardians, Dads, Mothers, Mother, Siblings, Children, Rear, Raise
FATHER vs PARENTS: 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!
- The Baby Einstein Curiosity Table is for parents that want to join the fun and parents of multiple children.
- Birth parents, adoptive parents, and the adopted child are all able to file a petition to reverse an adoption.
- These may come from your parents, step parents, or legal guardian, or the person that you live with.
- If both parents are alive, then ideally both parents should sign the document.
- Ryan is survived by his parents, step parents Julie Moore of Lisbon Falls, Ron St.
- For example, minor children of divorced parents may legally require consent from both parents.
- If your parents share custody both parents will have to sign.
- His parents talked to the boys parents, and it stopped.
- Is an Attorney representing the adoptive parents ethically obligated to disclose confidential information about the genetic parents to the adoptive parents?
- Here, Professor Susan Golombok visits queer parents, donor conception parents, trans parents, and, more importantly, their children, to learn about their experiences.
FATHER vs PARENTS: QUESTIONS
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- What happened to father Kastner in 'the Conjuring'?
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