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Father

🔄 Synonyms of "Father"

16 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
engenderverb	(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
generateverb	(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
sirenoun	A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
begetverb	To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
getverb	(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
foundernoun	One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
beginnernoun	Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
mothernoun	A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
bring forthverb	To create, generate, bring into existence.
forefathernoun	An ancestor.
begetternoun	A procreator; one who begets.
male parentnoun	a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
padrenoun	(Christianity) A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
father-godnoun	god when considered as the first person in the trinity
church fathernoun	(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.
founding fathernoun	A man who founded something.

↔️ Antonyms of "Father"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
mothernoun	A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
female parentnoun	a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Father"

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

Word	Definition
mothernoun	A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
forefathernoun	An ancestor.
sirenoun	A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
padrenoun	(Christianity) A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
church fathernoun	(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.
foundernoun	One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
founding fathernoun	A man who founded something.
beginnernoun	Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
generateverb	(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
bring forthverb	To create, generate, bring into existence.
getnoun	(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
begetternoun	A procreator; one who begets.
begetverb	To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
engenderverb	(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
father-godnoun	god when considered as the first person in the trinity
male parentnoun	a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
paternitynoun	Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
genitornoun	a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
parentnoun	(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
stepfathernoun	(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.