The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
A married man; a man who has a wife; - the correlative to wife.
The male of a pair of animals.
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
To cultivate, as land; to till.
To furnish with a husband.
One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; - in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
A respectful mode of address to an old man.
A senator of ancient Rome.
A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
To make one’s self the father of; to beget.
To take as one’s own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one’s own work; to acknowledge one’s self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
To provide with a father.
