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English

Etymology

design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??za?n?/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Noun

designer (plural designers)

1. A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
2. A plotter or schemer.
3. (computing) A software tool for designing things.

   a font designer

   a level designer for a video game

Derived terms

• graphic designer
• designership

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

designer (not comparable)

1. Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer.

   designer swimwear

   a designer briefcase

Derived terms

• designer baby
• designer dog
• designer drug

Anagrams

• Edingers, energids, enridges, re-signed, redesign, reedings, resigned

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer. Equivalent to design +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?z?i?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: de?sig?ner

Noun

designer m (plural designers, diminutive designertje n)

1. designer

Synonyms

• ontwerper

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dis?i?ner/, [?dis??i?ne?r]

Noun

designer

1. designer

   Synonym: suunnittelija

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English designer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.nœ?/

Noun

designer m (plural designers)

1. designer

Etymology 2

English design +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zaj.ne/

Verb

designer

1. to design

Conjugation

Anagrams

• dénigres, dénigrés, geindres, gredines

Further reading

• “designer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m or f (invariable)

1. designer (especially one who designs furniture or other industrial products)

Latin

Verb

d?signer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?sign?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

designer

1. present tense of designe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer m, f (plural designers)

1. designer (person who designs)

Swedish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

designer

1. indefinite plural of design

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English designer.

Noun

designer c

1. a designer

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä'th?(r), IPA^(key): /?f??ð?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: fä'th?r, IPA^(key): /?f?ð?/
• (General Australian) enPR: fä'th?, IPA^(key): /?fa?ð?/
• (obsolete) enPR: f?'th?r, IPA^(key): /?fæð??/
• Homophone: farther (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: fa?ther

Noun

father (plural fathers)

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. The founder of a discipline or science.

7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
   • 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:

     Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

   • 2002, Financial Management:

     "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."

   • 2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan: (?ISBN), page 93:

     “The Father of All Battles”

     On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]

8. Something inanimate that begets.

Synonyms

• (parent): see Thesaurus:father
• (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) mother
• (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

• (a male parent): parent

Derived terms

Related terms

• Father
• Jupiter
• paternal

Translations

Verb

father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)

1. To be a father to; to sire.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4

     Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

2. (figuratively) To give rise to.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2

     Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2

     Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.

     Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

Translations

See also

• beget
• grandpa
• pater
• paternal
• sire

Anagrams

• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah

Middle English

Noun

father

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader