n. 1 sire, paterfamilias, Colloq dad, daddy, pa, papa, pop, old man, old boy, Brit governor, pater His father is a chemist 2 forebear, ancestor, forefather, progenitor, primogenitor The father of the dynasty fought at Hastings 3 creator, founder, originator, inventor, author, architect, framer, initiator He regards Lavoisier as the father of modern chemistry 4 priest, confessor, curé, abbé, minister, pastor, shepherd, parson, clergyman, chaplain, Colloq padre, Military slang sky pilot We should see the Father about the funeral service
v. 5 sire, beget, get, engender, procreate, generate He had fathered more than forty children in his harem 6 originate, establish, found, invent, author, frame, initiate, institute, create Galileo fathered modern astronomy by inventing the telescope