father

father is a 6-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
2. noun. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
3. noun. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
4. noun. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
5. noun. A senator of ancient Rome.
6. noun. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
7. noun. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
8. noun. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
9. noun. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
10. transitive verb. To make one's self the father of; to beget.
11. transitive verb. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
12. transitive verb. To provide with a father.
13. noun. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

    "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"

    Synonyms: fatherhood

14. noun. (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
15. noun. the head of an organized crime family

    Synonyms: don

16. noun. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

    "his father was born in Atlanta"

    Synonyms: begetter

17. noun. `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

    Synonyms: padre

18. noun. 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"

19. noun. the founder of a family

    "keep the faith of our forefathers"

    Synonyms: forefather, sire

20. noun. a person who founds or establishes some institution

    "George Washington is the father of his country"

    Synonyms: beginner, founder

21. verb. make children

    "Abraham begot Isaac"

    "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

    Synonyms: beget, engender, generate, get, mother, sire

Synonyms

fatherhood, don, begetter, padre, forefather, sire, beginner, founder, beget, engender, generate, get, mother

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in father:

freath, hafter, trefah

Common word forms

fathers, fathered, fatherly, fathering, fatherless

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