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father
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)
- A (generally human) male who begets a child.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- The founder of a discipline or science.
- 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 […]
- 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:
- 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)
- 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.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4
- (figuratively) To give rise to.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2
- Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2
- 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.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2
- To provide with a father.
- 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.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.
Translations
See also
- beget
- grandpa
- pater
- paternal
- sire
Anagrams
- afther, fareth, hafter, trefah
Middle English
Noun
father
- (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader
father From the web:
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- what fathers teach their daughters
- what fathers teach their sons
- what father's day
- what father of the bride should wear
- what fathers need to know about pregnancy
- what father's day date
- what father and son are in the heineken commercial
engender
English
Alternative forms
- engendre [14th–16th c.], ingender [15th–17th c.]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingener?re, from in- + gener?re (“to generate”).
Verb
engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th–19th c.]
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
- 1891, Henry James, "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere, p.60:
- Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him […].
- 1891, Henry James, "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere, p.60:
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
- 1928, "New Plays in Manhattan", Time, 8 Oct.:
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
- 2009, Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian, 21 Dec.:
- Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
- 1928, "New Plays in Manhattan", Time, 8 Oct.:
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. [15th–19th c.]
Synonyms
- (to bring into existence): beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate
- (to copulate): do it, get it on, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Translations
Etymology 2
From en- +? gender.
Verb
engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]
Anagrams
- engendre, regenned
engender From the web:
- engender meaning
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- what engenders amour propre
- engender what does that mean
- what is engendering trust
- what does engendering trust mean
- what is engender competence
- what slavery engendered
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