fathers

Noun

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
• 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
• the head of an organized crime family
• plural of father

Verb

• make children
• third-person singular simple present indicative of father

Synonyms

beget, begetter, beginner, bring forth, Church Father, don, engender, Father, father, Father of the Church, Father-God, Fatherhood, forefather, founder, founding father, generate, get, male parent, mother, Padre, sire

Antonyms

female parent, mother