father
Meanings
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);
- "his father was born in Atlanta"
- the founder of a family;
- "keep the faith of our forefathers"
- `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
- (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 Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization;
- "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"
- "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;
- a person who founds or establishes some institution;
- "George Washington is the father of his country"
- the head of an organized crime family
- make children;
- "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
- FATHER v -ED -ING, -S to cause to exist
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
father is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordfather is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
father is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
father is a valid Words With Friends word