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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   father

   • IPA[ˈfäT͟Hər]

   美式

   • n.
     a man in relation to his child or children；a male animal in relation to its offspring.
   • v.
     (of a man) cause a pregnancy resulting in the birth of (a child)；treat with the protective care associated with a father.

   • noun: father, plural noun: fathers

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a man in relation to his child or children Margaret's father died at an early age they assumed that I was the father of the child 同義詞 male parent, birth father, biological father, begetter, patriarch, ... 更多paterfamilias, informaldad, daddy, pop, poppa, pa, old boy, old man, adoptive father, foster father, stepfather, informal, datedpater
   • ▪ a male animal in relation to its offspring.
   • ▪ literary ancestors. 同義詞 ancestor, forefather, forebear, progenitor, predecessor, ... 更多antecedent, forerunner, precursor, rareprimogenitor反義詞 descendant
   • ▪ an important figure in the origin and early history of something Dorsey should be remembered as the father of gospel music 同義詞 originator, initiator, founder, founding father, inventor, ... 更多creator, maker, author, prime mover, instigator, architect, engineer, designer, deviser, planner, contriver, mastermind, literarybegetter
   • ▪ a man who gives care and protection to someone or something the prince is widely regarded as the father of the nation
   • ▪ the oldest or most respected member of a society or other body. 同義詞 leader, elder, senior figure, patriarch, senator, ... 更多guiding light, official
   • ▪ (in Christian belief) the first person of the Trinity; God. 同義詞 God, Lord, Lord God, Deity, humorousHim upstairs, ... 更多the man upstairs
   • ▪ used in proper names, especially when personifying time or a river, to suggest an old and venerable character Father Thames
   • 2. (often as a title or form of address) a priest pray for me, father 同義詞 priest, pastor, parson, clergyman, father confessor, ... 更多churchman, man of the cloth, man of God, cleric, minister, preacher, abbé, curé, informalreverend, padre
   • 3. early Christian theologians (in particular of the first five centuries) whose writings are regarded as especially authoritative.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. (of a man) cause a pregnancy resulting in the birth of (a child) he fathered three children 同義詞 be the father of, sire, engender, generate, bring into being, ... 更多bring into the world, give life to, spawn, procreate, reproduce, breed, literarybeget
   • ▪ treat with the protective care associated with a father.
   • ▪ be the source or originator of a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the world 同義詞 establish, institute, originate, initiate, put in place, ... 更多invent, found, create, generate, conceive
   • ▪ assign the paternity of a child or responsibility for a book, idea, or action to a collection of Irish stories was fathered on him
   • ▪ appear as or admit that one is the father or originator of a singular letter from a lady, requesting I would father a novel of hers

   片語

   • like father, like son