verb make (offspring) by reproduction.
— synonyms: beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate, bring_forth
noun a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father).
— synonyms: male_parent, begetter
noun the founder of a family.
— synonyms: forefather, sire
noun `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church).
— synonyms: Padre
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.
— synonyms: Church_Father, Father_of_the_Church
noun a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization.
noun God when considered as the first person in the Trinity.
— synonyms: Father-God, Fatherhood
noun a person who founds or establishes some institution.
— synonyms: founder, beginner, founding_father
noun the head of an organized crime family.
— synonyms: don
Examples
“My father was a strong influence on me.”
“Come, father; you can sit here.”
“My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.”