Word Finder - father

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A (generally human) male who begets a child.

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My father was a strong influence on me.

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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

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A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

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Come, father; you can sit here.

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A term of respectful address for a priest.

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A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

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My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.

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The founder of a discipline or science.

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Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

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Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

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Something inanimate that begets.

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A senator of Ancient Rome.

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To be a father to; to sire.

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To give rise to.

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To act as a father; to support and nurture.

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To provide with a father.

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To adopt as one's own.

Father will buy me a lovely new watch.

My father works in the field, and I take care of the sheep.

His father had connections... in Columbia?

His father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been shepherds.

Daniel and his father would ride there on horseback.

Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter.

When Benjamin's father came home, his mother showed him the picture.

Your father expects it.

Alex was cordial to his father and formal to his sister.

It makes Father crazy.

He scowled at his father and rode up beside Carmen.

Alex is a lot like his father in some ways.

Father will not change his mind.

My father was obliged to get a ladder and take Miss Sullivan out through the window--much to my delight.

She would have thought Dulce adored her father, but obviously not.

Mother and father and their friends have gone to see a huge furnace.

If you were not a father there would be nothing I could reproach you with, said Anna Pavlovna, looking up pensively.

If your father is American and your mother Chinese, you will have a different understanding of differences between those countries, and, on balance, will be less amenable to war between those nations.

He was making noises like his father was the one he didn't trust, but it wasn't that simple.

You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.

Apparently his greatest concern was the fact that his mother was married to his adoptive father at the time he was conceived.

And the father was a poor man.

Helen has learned to tell the time at last, and her father is going to give her a watch for Christmas.

Where was the parent which hatched it, its kindred, and its father in the heavens?

Dessalles looked in amazement at the prince, who was talking of the Niemen when the enemy was already at the Dnieper, but Princess Mary, forgetting the geographical position of the Niemen, thought that what her father was saying was correct.

His father and mother were Quakers, and they did not think it was right to spend money for such things.

When he returned to Moscow his father dismissed the abbe and said to the young man, Now go to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession.

Obviously your father has a brother or a sister.

Father will need to rest as well.

And then we come to Greece, the home of Hippocrates, the "Father of Modern Medicine," who left us not just the oath that bears his name but also a corpus of roughly sixty medical texts based on his teaching.

His father, eighty years old, could not remember when it was not there.

After that Princess Mary did not see her father for a whole week.

Then he turned back to his father, who was watching him with interest.

Alex had raced to her rescue because he knew she was too naïve to realize what his father was doing.

His father died shortly after Alex was born, so I never met either of them.

You're a wonderful husband and father.

You're just like your father.

Unconsciously imitating her father, she now tried to express herself as he did, as much as possible by signs, and her tongue too seemed to move with difficulty.

How do they feel about your father offering the estate to Alex?

Your father loves Alex, doesn't he?

Your father even offered you land if you would come down here to stay.

Maybe he was thinking about what his father would say or do when he came in.

Still, if Señor Medena adopted Dulce when she was a baby and raised her, then he was her father - blood relative or not.

Such a house my father built after the Civil War, and when he married my mother they went to live in it.

But in the excitement of carrying me to church my father lost the name on the way, very naturally, since it was one in which he had declined to have a part.

Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.

She gave it to him and, unpleasant as it was to her to do so, ventured to ask him what her father was doing.

Dulce glanced at her father and then at Carmen, her dark eyes barely veiling contempt.

I have his name, but he is not my father.

The problem wasn't Dulce or his father.