father

father
father [{{t}}'fɑ:ðə(r)]
1 noun
(a) (parent) père m;
he's a good father c'est un bon père;
he's a father of three il est père de trois enfants;
father, this is John papa, je te présente John;
he's like a father to me il est comme un père pour moi;
from father to son de père en fils;
on my father's side du côté de mon père;
yes, father oui, père, oui, papa;
she's her father's daughter c'est bien la fille de son père;
{{}}proverb{{}} like father, like son tel père, tel fils
(b) (usu pl) (ancestor) ancêtre m, père m
(c) (founder) père m, fondateur m;
the father of cubism/modernism le père du cubisme/du modernisme
(d) (leader) dirigeant m;
father of chapel (shop steward) représentant m du personnel (dans l'édition)
2 transitive verb
(a) (child) engendrer; {{}}figurative{{}} (idea, science) concevoir, inventer
(b) (impose) attribuer;
to father sth on sb attribuer qch à qn;
they fathered the blame on her ils lui ont fait porter le blâme
3 Father noun
(a) {{}}Religion{{}} (priest) père m;
Father Brown le (révérend) père Brown;
yes, Father oui, mon père
(b) {{}}Religion{{}} (God) Père m;
God the Father Dieu le Père;
the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost le Père, le Fils et le Saint Esprit;
Our Father who art in Heaven Notre Père qui êtes aux cieux;
to say the Our Father dire le Notre Père
(c) {{}}Politics{{}}
the Father of the House = titre traditionnel donné au doyen (par l'ancienneté) des parlementaires britanniques
►► {{}}British{{}} Father Christmas le Père Noël;
father confessor directeur m de conscience, père m spirituel;
Father's Day fête f des pères;
father figure = personne qui joue le rôle du père;
he was a father figure for all the employees le personnel le considérait un peu comme un père;
(Old) Father Time le Temps

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  • Father — Fa ther (f[aum] [th][ e]r), n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. fa[eth]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. path r, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[=a] protect. [root]75, 247. Cf. {Papa},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Father — Fa ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one s self the father of; to beget. [1913 Webster] Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take as one s own child; to adopt;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • father — ► NOUN 1) a male parent. 2) an important figure in the origin and early history of something: Pasteur, the father of microbiology . 3) literary a male ancestor. 4) (often as a title or form of address) a priest. 5) (the Father) (in Christian… …   English terms dictionary

  • Father MC — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Father MC es un cantante de new jack swing y hip hop, que entró en el panorama musical con el hit I ll Do 4 U en el año 1990, dentro de su disco debut Father s Day . Dos años después, editó Close to you otro de sus… …   Wikipedia Español

  • father — [fä′thər] n. [ME fader < OE fæder, akin to ON fathir, OHG fater, Goth fadar < IE * pətḗr > L pater, Gr patēr, Sans pitár: ult. origin prob. echoic of baby talk, as in PAPA, Hindi bābū] 1. a man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he …   English World dictionary

  • father — [n1] male person who begets children ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy*, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source; concepts 394,400,414,419,423 Ant. mother father [n2] priest abbé,… …   New thesaurus

  • father — index generate, originate, parents, primogenitor, propagate (increase), reproduce Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

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  • father — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ lone (esp. BrE), single ▪ As a single father, he found it a struggle bringing up three children. ▪ married, unmarried ▪ a married father of …   Collocations dictionary

  • father —    This would seem to be the natural term for a speaker to use to his or her father, but whether it is used or not depends on individual family practice, which may in turn be influenced by the social and educational level of the family concerned …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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