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(nou) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) (nou) the founder of a family (nou) `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 (nou) 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 (nou) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization (nou) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity (nou) a person who founds or establishes some institution (nou) the head of an organized crime family

Phonetic Transcription:

ˈfɑːðə

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The son is learning the forces of the father.

The father commended his son with a reward.

The son outlived the father by 64 years.

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