English Dictionary

father

/ˈfɑːðə(ɹ)/

noun

A (generally human) male who begets a child. / A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. / A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

My father is a kind and loving man.

意味（1）

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

My father was a strong influence on me.

意味（2）

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.

意味（3）

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

Come, father; you can sit here.

意味（4）

A term of respectful address for a priest.

Bless you, good father friar!

意味（5）

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.

意味（6）

The founder of a discipline or science.

Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

意味（7）

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that the father of all battles had just begun. His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

意味（8）

Something inanimate that begets.

But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather : / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]

意味（9）

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.