All father synonyms
faΒ·ther
F f verb father
- sire β the male parent of a quadruped.
- conceive β If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- spawn β Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- create β To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- originate β to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- procreate β to beget or generate (offspring).
- produce β to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- found β simple past tense and past participle of find.
- beget β To beget something means to cause it to happen or be created.
- generate β to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- trigger β a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
- engender β Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
noun father
- dad β Your dad is your father. You can call your dad 'Dad'.
- daddy β Children often call their father daddy.
- pop β point of presence
- pater β Latin. father of his country.
- ancestor β Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- parent β a father or a mother.
- predecessor β parent
- begetter β The begetter of something has caused this thing to come into existence.
- origin β something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
- pa β father.
- padre β father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- papa β father.
- progenitor β a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
- source β any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- procreator β to beget or generate (offspring).
- forefather β an ancestor.
- forebear β Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- founder β a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
- patriarch β the male head of a family or tribal line.
- originator β to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- initiator β SCSI initiator
- contriver β to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- architect β An architect is a person who designs buildings.
- author β The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
- priest β a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- minister β a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- pastor β a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- vicar β Church of England. a person acting as priest of a parish in place of the rector, or as representative of a religious community to which tithes belong. the priest of a parish the tithes of which are impropriated and who receives only the smaller tithes or a salary.
- clergyman β A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
- confessor β A confessor is a priest who hears a person's confession.
- ecclesiastic β a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- parson β a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- preacher β a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
- reverend β (initial capital letter) (used as a title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order): Reverend Timothy Cranshaw; Reverend Mother.
- abbe β Ernst. 1840β1905, German physicist, noted for his work in optics and the microscope condenser known as the Abbe condenser
- cure β If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.