father
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
美 /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/|/ˈfɐː.ðə/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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
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A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
— My friend Tony just became a father.
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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.
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A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
— Come, father; you can sit here.
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A term of respectful address for a priest.
— Bless you, good father friar!
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A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
— My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
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A pioneering figure in a particular field.
— Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
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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 […]
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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,[…]
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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 […]
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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.
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To be a father to; to sire.
— Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.
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To give rise to.
— Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;
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To act as a father; to support and nurture.
— I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:
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To provide with a father.
— Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
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To adopt as one's own.
— Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.
词汇关系
近义词
下位词
衍生词
adoptive father
All-Father
allofather
baby father
babyfather
be gathered to one's fathers
biofather
birth father
birthfather
birthing father
bonus father
city father
co-father
co-father-in-law
conscript father
elderfather
eldfather
father-bother merger
Father Christmas
father confessor
fathercraft
father-daughter day
fatherdom
fatherese
father-figure
father figure
fatherfucker
father-fucker
fatherhood
father hunger
father in law
father-in-law
fatherkin
fatherkins
fatherland
father lasher
fatherless
fatherlike
fatherline
fatherliness
fatherling
father longlegs
fatherly
fatherness
father of chapel
Father of Lies
father of the House
father of the nation
father-out-law
Father's Day
fathership
father-slayer
father superior
Father Time
father-to-be
father tongue
forefather
forthfather
foster father
founding father
father to son
gestational father
ghostly father
godfather
God the Father
gold star father
grandfather
great-grandfather
Heavenly Father
highfather
housefather
how's your father
it is a wise child that knows his own father
like father, like son
like father like son
lorefather
merfather
motherfather
nonfather
nursing father
one's father was born before one
penny-father
shrift father
shriftfather
single father
stepfather
step-father
surrogate father
unfather
wolf father
you kiss your father with that mouth
fatherer
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.
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.
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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