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(n)
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
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An ancestor.
(Christianity) A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.
One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
A man who founded something.
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
(v)
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
To create, generate, bring into existence.
(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
A procreator; one who begets.
To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
god when considered as the first person in the trinity
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
(informal) A father, a male parent.
(often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
Son of the same parents as another person.
(rare) A person related through the father, or his side of the family; a paternal relative.
(informal) A stepfather.
One's male offspring.
Father, dad.
(US, colloquial, sometimes childish) father, papa.
(formal or humorous) Father.
One's spouse's father.
A father of someone's parent.
(usually childish) Father.
(informal) grandfather
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
(childish) Father, dad.
Alternative form of dada (“father”). [(childish) Father, dad.]
One’s female offspring.
(Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
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.
(now chiefly US) An old person.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
(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:
The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
A member of the Christian clergy; a minister.
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.
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.
A landlord; the master of a large estate.
The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
Forest; woods.
(US) A male member of the House of Representatives.
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
(obsolete, law, in set phrases as mentioned below) The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
A surname.
(colloquial, regional) A father.
(countable, religion) Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
(medical jargon) epinephrine
(electronics, communication, mathematics) signal-to-noise ratio
(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart.
(Canada, health, medicine, government) Initialism of Alberta Health Services.
A male given name from Arabic mainly used by Muslims.
Initialism of International Association of Ports and Harbors.
Mount Abu, the highest mountain in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
(baseball) Initialism of intentional base on balls, an intentional walk.
(computing) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
A female given name from Latin.
A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.
A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Walter.
(slang, US) A five-dollar bill.
Fictitious surname of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname from Spanish of Spanish occupational origin.
An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
(N)
an Arabic masculine given name.
(programming) Initialism of instruction-level parallelism.