Definitions For Father

noun

  • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
  • (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
  • The head of an organized crime family
  • A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
  • 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
  • A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
  • The founder of a family
  • A person who founds or establishes some institution
  • A male parent
  • A man who is thought of as being like a father
  • A person who was in someone's family in past times

verb

  • Make (offspring) by reproduction
  • To become the father of (a child) : to make a woman pregnant so that she gives birth to (a child)
  • To invent, create, or produce (something)

Is Father a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
11

The word Father is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Father in a Sentence

  • He became a father when he was 30.
  • He's the father of three small children.
  • He has been like a father to me.
  • He was praised for fathering a plan to improve the city's schools.
  • Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered.

Synonyms for Father

Antonyms for Father

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