transcription, транскрипция: [ fɑ:ðə(r) ]
( fathers, fathering, fathered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he was this man.
His father was a painter...
He would be a good father to my children.
...Mr Stoneman, a father of five.
N-FAMILY
2.
When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born.
She claims Mark fathered her child...
He fathered at least three children by the wives of other men.
VERB : V n , V n by n
3.
The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing.
...Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography.
N-COUNT : N of n
4.
In some Christian churches, priests are addressed or referred to as Father .
N-VOC ; N-TITLE ; N-COUNT