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  1. noun
    `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

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  2. noun
    a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
    "his father was born in Atlanta"

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  3. noun
    (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
  4. noun
    the founder of a family
    "keep the faith of our forefathers"

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  5. verb
    make (offspring) by reproduction
    "John fathered four daughters"
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  6. noun
    the head of an organized crime family

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  7. noun
    God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

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  8. noun
    a person who founds or establishes some institution
    "George Washington is the father of his country"
  9. noun
    a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
    "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor" "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"
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