I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a proud mother/father/parent
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Mark is the proud father of a three-week-old baby boy.
absent parent/father
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plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance
birth father
city fathers
Father Christmas
father figure
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Ken was a father figure to all of us.
Father's Day
founding father
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Saint Basil, one of the founding fathers of the Greek Orthodox Church
heavenly Father (= God )
Holy Father
sb is old enough to be sb’s mother/father (= used when you think that someone is much too old to be having a relationship with another person )
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Why would she want to go out with someone who was old enough to be her father?
surrogate father
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William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother’s son.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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figure
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His surrogate father figure was killed.
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With Diana out of the picture, Charles is emerging as a fitting father figure .
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Sondheim found a mentor, if not a father figure , in Hammerstein, Patinkin said.
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They, or rather Morrissey, thinks he's all wise and a sort of father figure .
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And one of the sturdiest of these is the father figure in the sky.
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Tiriac became a father figure and Nastase was at least able to fulfil some of his potential.
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Prior to 1916 Paul-Yves's life was anchored by the rock-like presence of a reassuring father figure , dominant, capable, sure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
biological parent/father/mother etc
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Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
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It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents.
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Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
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My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
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Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
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Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
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The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
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The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
expectant mother/father
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Everyone treats me with the temerity usually afforded to expectant fathers and potential Messiahs.
father/mother/authority figure
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A young girl needs a strong mother figure .
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And he registers genuine hurt at the fact that Buzzy regards Buck as more of a father figure than himself.
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As we get older, we may be abused by other authority figures - teachers, doctors, bosses.
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Disrespect the authority figure out there on the field and then wonder why the kids do it in their classrooms.
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Eventually Daley made the remarkable transition from political boss to father figure .
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He spoke seldom, but he was never impatient with her, always kind, a companionable father figure .
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It would seem that we are far more likely to obey unquestioningly when the authority figure is actually present.
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One wonders what is the unspoken view of the other authority figures involved in setting this up?
foster mother/father/parents
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By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.
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His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.
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News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
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On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
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Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.
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The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.
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The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.
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The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.
lone mother/father/parent etc
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More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
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Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
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Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
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We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
noncustodial parent/father/mother
the Almighty/Almighty God/Almighty Father
the Pilgrim Fathers
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's now the proud father of a three week old baby girl.
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Larry Blake, a father of three children, was shot dead outside his home last night.
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My father 's a doctor.
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Pianto has been working with his father for 21 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agnes, do not fight your father over this money.
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His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians.
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In 1969 there were three generations of the Holmes family taking part, father , son and grandson.
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Jerome pocketed the smokes from his father .
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My respects to you, and my father .
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Now that my father is dead, I must be old Mr Scott, Adam wanted to tell him.
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When his father died, Marshall ventured with two partners into yarn manufacture by the new process of spinning flax by machinery.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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child
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Tests had proved that he could never father a child .
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The court also ruled that no public policy bars men from fathering children posthumously.
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So Edwin Garland had almost certainly been incapable of fathering a child .
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Men separated from their women father illegitimate children .
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I do not know how I can have fathered such children .
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Having already fathered two children , he had only reluctantly agreed to have an-other child.
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Half the pregnant women on the estate would be swearing I fathered their children .
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Married Princess Beatrice; fathered ten children .
son
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There is the Brooklyn Bridge, and next to it the two Roeblings, father and son .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bill was told he would never be able to father children.
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He fathered eight daughters and three sons.
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Roosevelt fathered the concept of Social Security.
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Taylor denies fathering her 4-month-old son.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the portraits in this book show men who father from the heart, but none more than this one.
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An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.
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Elephant seals are so severely sieved that in each generation a handful of males father all the offspring.
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He fathered nine children with four women and the unpaid amounts totaled $ 25,000.
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I do not know how I can have fathered such children.
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In other versions, Zeus rapes Demeter and fathers Persephone.
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Unfortunately, Edison was not himself a musician, and the technology he fathered was never used for mass-producing serious musical records.