A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father):
— His father was born in Atlanta.

synonyms: begetter, male parent.

Roget 128: age; oldness^† etc. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility^†, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^†, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.    seniority, eldership; elders etc. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.    [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology^†.    ... show more

Roget 996: clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk.    clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant^†, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.    dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch^†, hierarch^†; ebdomarius [Lat.]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan^†, dean, subdean^†, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary^†, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular^†; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.    churchwarden, sidesman^†; clerk, precentor^†, choir; almoner, suisse [Fr.], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth^†, acolothyst^†, acolyte, altar boy; chorister.    [Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen^†, flamen^†; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.    cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman^†, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian^†; Gilbertine; Austin Friars^†, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme [Fr.], Carthusian, Benedictine^†, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine^†, Lorettine, pillarist^†, stylite^†.    abbess, prioress, canoness^†; religieuse [Fr.], nun, novice, postulant.    [Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite; Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe; scribe.    [Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum^†, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin^†, kassis^†; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir^†; brahmin^†, guru, kaziaskier^†, poonghie^†, sanyasi^†; druid, bonze^†, santon^†, abdal^†, Lama, talapoin^†, caloyer^†.    ... show more

Dutch: verwekker, vadertje, Vader, pater, eerwaarde, mijnheer pastoor, oudeheer, ouwe, ouweheer, pa, pap, papa, pappie, paps, pipa, vader, vaderen, vake ... show more
Polish: rodziciel

The founder of a family:
— Keep the faith of our forefathers.

synonyms: forefather, sire.

Roget 166: paternity; parentage; consanguinity etc. 11.    parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba^†; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire^†, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership^†, fatherhood; mabap^†.    house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.    motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother.    ... show more

Polish: praojciec

`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.

synonym: Padre.

Polish: ojciec

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.

synonyms: Church Father, Father of the Church.

A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization.

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity:
— Hear our prayers, Heavenly Father.

synonyms: Father-God, Fatherhood.

Polish: Bóg Ojciec

A person who founds or establishes some institution:
— George Washington is the father of his country.

synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father.

Dutch: grondlegger, grondvester, oprichter, stichter, vader
Polish: założyciel

The head of an organized crime family.

synonym: don.

Dutch: don
Polish: don

Make (offspring) by reproduction:
— John fathered four daughters.

synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire.

Dutch: voortbrengen, veroorzaken, verwekken