father
noun/ˈfɑːðər/
Слово англійською: father
Переклад father українською: батько
Детальний опис
- a male parent of a child or an animal; a person who is acting as the father to a child
- My father died in 2017.
- Ben's a wonderful father.
- Our new boss is a father of three (= he has three children).
- father to somebody You've been like a father to me.
- He was a wonderful father to both his natural and adopted children.
- I never met my biological father.
- (old-fashioned) Father, I cannot lie to you.
- fathers[plural] (literary) a person’s ancestors (= people who are related to you who lived in the past)
- the land of our fathers
- father (of something) the first man to introduce a new way of thinking about something or of doing something
- Henry Moore is considered to be the father of modern British sculpture.
- Fatherused by Christians to refer to God
- Father, forgive us.
- God the Father
- Father(abbreviation Fr)the title of a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
- Father Dominic
Word OriginOld English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr.
Idioms
from father to son
- from one generation of a family to the next
like father, like son
- (saying) used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father
old enough to be somebody’s father/mother
- (disapproving) very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)
the wish is father to the thought
- (saying) we believe a thing because we want it to be true