father

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/    /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/|/ˈfɐː.ðə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
    — My father was a strong influence on me.
    The Borrowers
  2. A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
    — My friend Tony just became a father.
  3. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
    — So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
  4. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
    — Come, father; you can sit here.
  5. A term of respectful address for a priest.
    — Bless you, good father friar!
  6. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
    — My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
  7. A pioneering figure in a particular field.
    — Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
  8. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
    — Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]
  9. Something inanimate that begets.
    — But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]
  10. A member of a church council.
    — In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]
  11. The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
    — Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
动词 v.
  1. To be a father to; to sire.
    — Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.
  2. To give rise to. figuratively
    — Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;
  3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
    — I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:
  4. To provide with a father.
    — Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
  5. To adopt as one's own.
    — Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

词形变化

fathers plural fathers present,singular,third-person fathering participle,present fathered participle,past fathered past

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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, from possibly *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Germanic *fadēr
Proto-West Germanic *fader
Old English fæder
Middle English fader
English father
Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, from possibly *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.
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