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Dad

/dæd/

A father, a male parent.

📖 Definitions of "Dad"

noun

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
daddynoun	(usually childish) Father.
popnoun	(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
dadanoun	(childish) Father, dad.
papanoun	(often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
old mannoun	(literally) An elderly man.
paternoun	(formal or humorous) Father.
panoun	(colloquial) Father, papa.
pappanoun	A surname.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
papanoun	(often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
paternoun	(formal or humorous) Father.
daddynoun	(usually childish) Father.
dadanoun	(childish) Father, dad.
old mannoun	(literally) An elderly man.
popnoun	(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
panoun	(colloquial) Father, papa.
pappanoun	A surname.
popsnoun	Father, dad.
poppanoun	(US, colloquial, sometimes childish) father, papa.
unclenoun	The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
grandpanoun	(informal) grandfather
sonnoun	One's male offspring.
paternitynoun	Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
fathernoun	A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
parentnoun	(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
daddy-onoun	(informal, dated) Term of address for a man.
paternalnoun	(rare) A person related through the father, or his side of the family; a paternal relative.
mothernoun	A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
daddanoun	Alternative form of dada (“father”). [(childish) Father, dad.]