Father Synonyms and Antonyms

fäthər
A male parent
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sire
  2. dad
  3. ancestor
  4. daddy
  5. paterfamilias
  6. p.a.
  7. papa
  8. procreator
  9. pappy
  10. pater
  11. pop
  12. begetter
  13. fatherhood
  14. progenitor
  15. forebear
  16. forefather
  17. agnate
  18. male head of the household
  19. agnation
  20. author
  21. founder
  22. male parent
  23. Father-God
  24. genitor
  25. the old man
  26. originator
  27. the governor
  28. padre
  29. pater-familias
  30. paternalism
  31. pops
  32. paternity
  33. patriarch
  34. patrilineage
  35. old man
  36. patrimony
  37. precursor
  38. predecessor
  39. prototype
Antonyms:
  1. mother
An originator
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. author
  2. founder
  3. inventor
  4. ancestor
  5. sponsor
  6. antecedent
  7. promoter
  8. ascendant
  9. publisher
  10. forebear
  11. introducer
  12. forefather
  13. supporter
  14. don
  15. foremother
  16. encourager
  17. mother
  18. promulgator
  19. parent
  20. creator
  21. progenitor
  22. predecessor
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A civic or tribal elder
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. patriarch
  2. city-father
  3. dean
  4. solon
A priest, especially a Roman Catholic or Anglican priest
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. padre
  2. pastor
  3. ecclesiastic
  4. parson
A first form from which varieties arise or imitations are made
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. archetype
  2. master
  3. original
  4. protoplast
  5. prototype
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An important early Christian
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hermit
  2. commentator
  3. gregory
  4. prophet
  5. martyr
  6. patriarch
  7. Doctor of the Church
  8. apostolic father
  9. anti-Nicene father
To be the biological father of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. beget
  2. breed
  3. get
  4. procreate
  5. sire
(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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. church father
  2. Father of the Church
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. agnatic
  2. fatherly
  3. filial
  4. paternal
  5. paternalistic
  6. patriarchal
  7. patriclinous
  8. patrilineal
  9. patripotestal
  10. patroclinous
  11. patronymic
  12. putative

Words Related to Father

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Father Sentence Examples

  • Father will buy me a lovely new watch.

  • My father works in the field, and I take care of the sheep.

  • His father had connections... in Columbia?

  • His father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been shepherds.

  • Daniel and his father would ride there on horseback.

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