FATHER

(PARENT) [noun] [C] - a male parentMy father used to take me to watch the football every Saturday.She had a child when she was 15, but she never told her family who the father was.(slightly formal) Can we go and stay with Auntie Doris in New York please, father/Father? [as form of address]The puppies looked just like the neighbour's dog, so we assumed it was the father.If you describe a man as the father of something, you mean that he began it, or first made it important.Freud was the father of psychiatry.George Washington was the father of his country.(esp. UK) Father Christmas is Santa Claus.A father figure is an esp. older man whom you treat as a father by asking for their advice, help or support.(Old) Father Time is an image of an old man who represents time going past.