amerikai:
brit:
1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
6. The founder of a discipline or science.
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
8. Something inanimate that begets.
9. A senator of Ancient Rome.
1. To be a father to; to sire.
2. To give rise to.
3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.