n. 25B6; noun
his mother and father : MALE PARENT, patriarch, paterfamilias; informal dad, daddy, pop, pa, old man; Brit. informal, dated pater.
(poetic/literary) the religion of my fathers : ANCESTOR, forefather, forebear, predecessor, antecedent, progenitor, primogenitor.
the father of democracy : ORIGINATOR, initiator, founder, inventor, creator, maker, author, architect.
the city fathers : LEADER, elder, patriarch, official.
our heavenly Father : GOD, Lord (God).
pray for me, Father : PRIEST, pastor, parson, clergyman, cleric, minister, preacher; informal reverend, padre.
paternal, patri-.
child, mother, descendant.
25B6; verb
he fathered six children : BE THE FATHER OF, sire, bring into the world, spawn, breed; poetic/literary beget; archaic engender.
he fathered a strand of applied economics : ESTABLISH, institute, originate, initiate, invent, found, create.