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(n)
(often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
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(formal or humorous) Father.
(usually childish) Father.
(childish) Father, dad.
(literally) An elderly man.
(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
(colloquial) Father, papa.
A surname.
Father, dad.
(US, colloquial, sometimes childish) father, papa.
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
(informal) grandfather
One's male offspring.
Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
(informal, dated) Term of address for a man.
(rare) A person related through the father, or his side of the family; a paternal relative.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
Alternative form of dada (“father”). [(childish) Father, dad.]
(Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
(hypocoristic, usually childish, Canada, US) Mother, female parent.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
(US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
An adult male human.
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
A friend or casual acquaintance.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
(with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
A member of the Christian clergy; a minister.
Pronunciation spelling of year. [A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.]
A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
(Christianity) A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
An instance of someone dressed up as Santa.
The Government, the State.
(slang) A woman's breasts.
(colloquial, regional) A father.
(Midwestern US, Canadian Prairies, Atlantic Canada, South Africa) Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
(country dancing) A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
(electronics, communication, mathematics) signal-to-noise ratio
(Canada, health, medicine, government) Initialism of Alberta Health Services.
Abbreviation of Performance Application Programming Interface.
(mining) A mass of coal holed or undercut so as to be thrown down by wedges.
(banking) Initialism of Asian Development Bank.
(US, military, dated) Initialism of auxiliary floating drydock barge.
(uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
(countable, especially among people of Indian or Chinese ancestry) A father.
(uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.
(slang, US) A five-dollar bill.
A diminutive of the male given name Robert, particularly popular in Scotland.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
(countable) A British surname transferred from the given name.
(N)
a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky.
An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
(adj)
for which vengeance has been taken
Initialism of difficult development area.
a brand of ketchup and brown sauce in the United Kingdom.
a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno.
A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.
(India) Father’s father; paternal grandfather.
(slang, Russianism) Yes; an affirmative response.
(North India) father
An English surname.
Alternative spelling of granddad. [(informal) grandfather]
A father of someone's parent.
(informal) Grandmother.
Son of the same parents as another person.
(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
A mother of someone's parent.
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
(US, colloquial) Mother.
(informal, endearing) Husband.
A son of one's child.
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.