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FatherNoun1. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta". 2. The founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers". 3. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic); `Padre' is frequently used in the military. 4. An early writer accepted as an authority on the teachings and practices of the Christian church. 5. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal". 6. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father". 7. A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country". Verb1. Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "father" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Father a name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. (Judg. 17:10; 18:19; 1 Sam. 10:12; 2 Kings 2:12; Matt. 23:9, etc.). (3) The author or beginner of anything is also so called; e.g., Jabal and Jubal (Gen. 4:20, 21; comp. Job 38:28). Applied to God (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 32:6; 2 Sam. 7:14; Ps. 89:27, 28, etc.). (1.) As denoting his covenant relation to the Jews (Jer. 31:9; Isa. 63:16; 64:8; John 8:41, etc.). (2.) Believers are called God's "sons" (John 1:12; Rom. 8:16; Matt. 6:4, 8, 15, 18; 10:20, 29). They also call him "Father" (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:4). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of your father, signifies that you are about to be involved in a difficulty, and you will need wise counsel if you extricate yourself therefrom. If he is dead, it denotes that your business is pulling heavily, and you will have to use caution in conducting it. For a young woman to dream of her dead father, portends that her lover will, or is, playing her false. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Father A friar in holy orders. (See Brother .) A father suckled by his daughter. Euphrasia, the Grecian daughter, so preserved the life of Evander, her aged father. Xantippe so preserved the life of her father Cimonos in prison. The guard, marvelling the old man held out so long, set a watch and discovered the fact. Byron alludes to these stories in his Childe Harold. "There is a dungeon, in whose dim, drear light What do I gaze on? ... An old man, and a female young and fair, Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein The blood is nectar ... Here youth offers to old age the food, The milk of his own gift: - it is her sire To whom she renders back the debt of blood ... Drink, drink and live, old man! heaven's realm Holds no such tide." Byron: Childe Harold, iv. st. 148, 150. Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life - i.e. Melchisedec (Heb. vii. 3). He was not the son of a priest, either on his father's or mother's side; his pedigree could not be traced in the priestly line, like that of the ordinary high priests, which can be traced to Aaron; nor did he serve in courses like the Levites, who begin and end their official duties at stated times. Jesus was a "priest after the order of Melchisedec." Neither His reputed father, Joseph, nor His mother, Mary, was of the priestly line. As priest, therefore, He was "without father, without mother," without genealogy. And, like Melchisedec, He is a "priest for ever." He fathers it on me. He imputes it to me; he says it is my bantling. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Emperor Jing of Han China, ch 漢景帝, py. hàn jĭng dì, wg. Han Jing-ti, (188 BC - 141 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Family name Liu (劉 liú) in Chinese Given name Qi (啟 qĭ) in Chinese Era name Zhongyuan (中元 zhōng yúan) 149 BC-143 BC
Houyuan (後元 hòu yúan) 143 BC-141 BCFather Emperor Wen of Han China (fifth son of) Mother Empress Dou Wives Empress Bo (d. 150 BC)
Empress WangMajor concubines consort Li
consort Cheng
consort Deng
consort WangChildren 14 sons, all made wangs Duration of reign 156 BC-141 BC Tomb Temple name Courtesy name Posthumous name 孝景 (py. xiào jĭng), literary meaning: "filial and admirable" Posthumous name in short 景 (py. jĭng), literary meaning: "admirable"
See also
- Daoism
- Confucianism
- Rebellion of the seven states
- Chao Cuo
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Emperor Wen of Han ChinaWestern Han Dynasty Succeeded by:
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Eustace II, (d. 1093), count of Boulogne, was the husband of Goda, daughter of the English king Æthelred the Unready, and aunt of Edward the Confessor. He was the son of Eustace I.Eustace paid a visit to England in 1051, and was honourably received at the Confessor's court. A brawl in which he and his servants became involved with the citizens of Dover led to a serious quarrel between the king and Earl Godwine.
The latter, to whose jurisdiction the men of Dover were subject, refused to punish them. His lack of respect to those in authority was made the excuse for outlawing himself and his family. In 1066 Eustace came to England with Duke William, and fought at the battle of Hastings.
In the following year, probably because he was dissatisfied with his share of the spoil, he assisted the Kentishmen in an attempt to seize Dover Castle. The conspiracy failed, and Eustace was sentenced to forfeit his English fiefs.
Subsequently he was reconciled to the Conqueror, who restored a portion of the confiscated lands.
Eustace died in 1093, and was succeeded by his son, Eustace III.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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A father is typically the biological male parent of an offspring.
Human
In many cultures, especially traditional western, a father is usually the husband in a married couple. His role in the family is celebrated on Father's Day.
Many times fathers have a very important role in raising offspring and the title can be given to a non-biological father that fills this role. This is common in step-fathers (male married to biological mother). In most family structures the father is both a biological parent and a primary caregiver.
In East Asian and Western traditional families, fathers are the heads of the families, which means that his duties including providing financial support and making critical decisions, some of which must be obeyed without question by the rest of the family members.
As with cultural concepts of family, the specifics of a father's role vary according to cultural mores. In what some sociologists term the "bourgeois family", which arose out of typical 16th- and 17th-century European households and is often considered the "traditional Western" structure, the father's role has been somewhat limited. In this family model the father acts as the economic support and sometimes disciplinarian of the family, while the mother or other female relative oversees most of the childrearing. This structure is reflected, for example, in societies which legislate "maternity leave" but do not have a corresponding "paternity leave."
However, this limited role has increasingly been called into question. Both feminist and masculist authors have decried such predetermined roles as unjust. A nascent fathers' rights movement seeks to increase the legal standing of fathers in everything from child-custody cases to the institution of paid paternity or "family" leave.
Dad, daddy, pop, papa, and pa are some common or familiar words for a father. Many times these terms denote affection or a paternal role in a child's life. The father may only be the biological parent: "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someome special to be a Dad." As such, someone can be a father and not a dad, or a dad and not a father.
In the case of a stepfather when a child calls them dad this often indicates the child has finally accepted them in the loving parental role.
Other Animals
For some animals, it is the father who take care of the young.
- Some male frogs carry unhatched eggs on its back, such as Gastrotheca, Hemiphractus, Flectonotus, and Fritziana. Darwin frog (Rhinoderma darwini) fathers carry eggs in the vocal pouch.
- Unlike most birds, it is the Emperor Penguin fathers who sit on top of the nests.
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François Marie, afterwards Duc de Broglie (1671-1745), entered the army at an early age, and had a varied career of active service before he was made, at the age of twenty-three, lieutenant-colonel of the king's regiment of cavalry.He served continuously in the War of the Spanish Succession and was present at Malplaquet. He was made lieutenant-general in 1710, and served with Villars in the last campaign of the war and at the battle of Denain. During the peace he continued in military employment, and in 1719 he was made director-general of cavalry and dragoons. He was also employed in diplomatic missions, and was ambassador in England in 1724.
The war in Italy called him into the field again in 1733, and in the following year he was made marshal of France. In the campaign of 1734 he was one of the chief commanders on the French side, and he fought the battles of Parma and Guastalla. A famous episode was his narrow personal escape when his quarters on the Secchia were raided by the enemy on the night of September 14, 1734.
In 1735 he directed a war of positions with credit, but he was soon replaced by Marshal de Noailles. He was governor-general of Alsace when Frederick the Great paid a secret visit to Strassburg (1740).
In 1742 de Broglie was appointed to command the French army in Germany, but such powers as he had possessed were failing him, and he had always been the "man of small means," safe and cautious, but lacking in elasticity and daring. The only success obtained was in the action of Sahay (May 25, 1742), for which he was made a duke. He returned to France in 1743, and died two years later.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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George H. W. Bush Order: 41st President Term of Office: January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 Predecessor: Ronald Reagan Successor: Bill Clinton Date of Birth: Thursday, June 12, 1924 Place of Birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Profession: businessman Political Party: Republican Vice President: Dan Quayle Nicknames: "Poppy," "41" George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st (1989-1993) President of the United States. Previously, he served as director of the CIA in 1976, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States under President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989).
His son, George W. Bush, is the 43rd President of the United States. As a result George H. W. Bush is sometimes referred to as "the Elder Bush", "Bush the Elder", "Bush Senior" (incorrectly), "Bush 41", or "the first President Bush" in order to avoid possible confusion between his presidency and that of his son.
Personal background
George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, served as a Senator from Connecticut.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team. Here he learned of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and after graduating in June, 1942, he joined the US Navy.
He was a naval aviator during World War II, the youngest ever at that time, and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in the Pacific Theater.
After the War he attended Yale University, and was inducted into the secret society (essentially a fraternity) Skull and Bones, helping him to build friendships and political support.
He married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945. Their marriage produced 6 children, George W, Robin (died of leukemia at the age of 3), John (Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. His family has built on his and his father's political successes with his son George W. Bush's Governorship of Texas and subsequent election as President, and his son Jeb Bush's election as Governor of Florida. The Bush political dynasty has been compared to that of John Adams and the Kennedy family.
Bush ventured into the Texas oil business after the war, with mixed results. He secured a position with Dresser through his father's investment banking relationship with the company. His son, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after his employer at Dresser, Neil Mallon, a close family friend.
In 1964, Bush ventured into conventional politics by unsuccessfully running against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, making an issue of Yarborough's vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which almost all Southern politicians opposed. He was later elected in 1966 and 1968 to the House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas. He later lost his second attempt at a Senate seat in 1970 to Democrat Lloyd Bentsen who defeated the incumbent Yarborough in the Democratic primary. He served as US Ambassador to the United Nations, US Envoy to communist China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and on the executive board of the Committee on the Present Danger.
In 1980, Bush ran for President, losing in the Republican Party primaries to Ronald Reagan, the former Governor of California. Reagan selected Bush as his running mate and Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican Presidential ticket of 1980, and they went on to win. Reagan needed Bush to strengthen his tough stance on the Soviet Union, that Reagan earned from a speech at the 1976 Republican Convention. Bush had been many things Reagan had not been, a military man, a life-long Republican, and an internationalist with UN, CIA and China experience. Reagan had started life a Democrat, had not fought in World War II, and headed the Actors' Labor union, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
The Reagan/Bush ticket won again in 1984, against the Democrats' Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro ticket. In 1988, after 8 years as Vice President, Bush ran for President with the little known Senator Dan Quayle as his running mate and beat Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen, 426 to 111 electoral votes. (Lloyd Bentsen received one.)
During his second term as Vice President, Bush had the distinction of becoming the first Vice President to become Acting President when, on July 13, 1985, President Reagan underwent surgery to remove cancerous polyps from his colon. Bush served as Acting President for approximately 8 hours, during which time he is reported to have spent most of the time playing tennis.
Presidency
As President of the United States, George Bush is perhaps best known for leading the United Nations coalition in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In 1990, led by Saddam Hussein, Iraq invaded its oil-rich neighbor to the south, Kuwait. The broad coalition sought to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait and ensure that Iraq did not invade Saudi Arabia. President Bush's popularity rating in America soared during and immediately after the successful military operations, but later fell due to an economic recession.
A mild economic recession from July 1990 to March 1991 was a contributing factor to his defeat in the 1992 Presidential election. Several other factors were key in his defeat, including siding with Congressional Democrats in 1990 to raise taxes despite his famous "read my lips" pledge not to institute any new taxes. In doing so, Bush alienated many members of his conservative base, losing their support for his re-election. Another major factor, which may have helped Bill Clinton defeat Bush in the 1992 election was the candidacy of Ross Perot. Perot won 19% of the popular vote, and Clinton, still a largely unknown quantity in American politics, won the election.
After losing the election, Bush has retired from public life. After retiring, he did, however, notably parachute from an airplane for the first time since World War II. The Bushes live in Houston, Texas and their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located on the Southwest corner of the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.
The tenth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will be named USS George H. W. Bush when it is launched in 2009.
George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas was renamed after the former president in 1997.
Major legislation signed
Major legislation vetoed
Supreme Court appointments
- David Hackett Souter - 1990
- Clarence Thomas - 1991
Related articles
- U.S. presidential election, 1980
- U.S. presidential election, 1984
- U.S. presidential election, 1988
- U.S. presidential election, 1992
- George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas
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Ronald ReaganPresidents of the United States Succeeded by:
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Hank Williams, Sr. (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953) was one of the most influential country musicians of all time. He was born in Mount Olive, Alabama in 1923, and learned to play guitar and sing from a street blues singer named Tee Tot. He was performing in Alabama by his early teens, and formed a band called the Drifting Cowboys after his family moved to Montgomery, Alabama in 1937. In 1941, Williams began working with WSFA, a local radio station.In 1943, Williams met Audrey Mae Sheppard, and the couple were married a year later. Audrey also became his manager, as Williams' career was rising and he became a local celebrity. In 1946, Williams recorded two singles for Sterling Records, "Never Again" (1946) and "Honky Tonkin'" (1947), both of which were successful. Williams soon signed with MGM Records, and released "Move It On Over", a massive country hit. After a few more moderate hits, Williams released his version of "Lovesick Blues" (Rex Griffin) in 1949, which became a huge country hit and crossed over to mainstream audiences. That year, Williams sang the song at the Grand Ole Opry, where he became the first performer to receive six encores. That year, Audrey Williams gave birth to Randall Hank, their first son, and Hank Williams brought together Bob McNett (guitar), Hillous Butrum (bass guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle) and Don Helms (steel guitar) to form the most famous version of the Drifting Cowboys. 1949 also saw Williams release seven hit songs after "Lovesick Blues", including "Wedding Bells", "Mind Your Own Business", "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" and "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It". In 1950, Williams began recording spirituals as Luke the Drifter and released more hit songs, such as "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy", "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me", "Why Should We Try Anymore", "Nobody's Lonesome for Me", "Lone Gone Lonesome Blues", "Why Don't You Love Me", "Moanin' the Blues" and "I Just Don't Like the Kind of Livin'". In 1951, "Dear John" became a hit but the B-side, "Cold, Cold Heart", has endured as one of his most famous songs, covered by Tony Bennett (who released a hit version in 1951), Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer, The Cowboy Junkies, Frankie Laine, Jo Stafford, and Nora Jones. That same year, Williams released other hits, including the enduring classic "Crazy Heart".
In spite of his professional success, Williams' life was becoming unmanageable. His marriage was disintegrating, and he developed a serious problem with alcohol, morphine and other painkillers. In 1952, Hank and Audrey separated and he moved in with his mother, even as he released numerous hit songs, such as "Half as Much", "Jambalaya", "Settin' the Woods on Fire", "You Win Again" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive". Williams' drug problems continued to spiral out of control as he moved to Nashville and officially divorced his wife. He missed numerous concerts, or was too drunk to play, and was fired from the Grand Ole Opry, told not to return until he was sober. The Drifting Cowboys left Williams. In 1953, Williams was due to play in Canton, Ohio, but he was unable to fly due to weather problems. He hired a chauffeur and was injected with B12 and morphine before leaving in a Cadillac, carrying a bottle of whiskey with him. The chauffeur was pulled over for speeding and the police officer noted that the man in the backseat looked like a dead man. Upon closer examination, he was dead. Hank Williams is interred at the Oakwood Annex in Montgomery, Alabama. Williams' final single was "I'll Never Get out of This World Alive".
His son Hank Williams, Jr and grandson Hank Williams III are country musicians as well.
#1 Singles
- Lovesick Blues
- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
- Why Don't You Love Me
- Moanin the Blues
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Hey, Good-Looking
- Jambalaya (on the Bayou)
- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- Kaw-Liga
- Take These Chains From My Heart
Top-Five Singles
- Move It On Over
- I'm a Long Gone Daddy
- Wedding Bells
- Mind Your Own Business
- You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
- My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
- I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'
- They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
- Howlin' At the Moon
- I Can't Help It (I Am Still In Love With You)
- Crazy Heart
- Baby, We're Really In Love
- Honky Tonk Blues
- Half As Much
- Settin' the Woods On Fire
- I Won't Be Home No More
Top-Ten Singles
- Please Don't Let Me Love You
- My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
- Why Should We Try Anymore
- Nobody's Lonesome For Me
- Lonesome Whistle (I Heard That)
- You Win Again
- Dear John
- Never Again
- Weary Blues From Waitin'
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A priest is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. There are priests in some branches of Christianity, Shintoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many, many others, though each culture has a local denomination for the priestly office. Priests are generally regarded as having good contact with the gods of the religion he or she ascribes to, and other believers will often turn to a priest for advice on matters spiritual.In ancient Judaism, the tribe of Kohanim were hereditary priests.
In many religions, being a priest is a full time assignment, ruling out any other career. In many other religions it is a position inherited in familial line.
In the Christian context, some confusion is caused for English speakers by two different Greek words traditionally translated as priest. Both occur in the New Testament, which draws a distinction not always observed in English. The first, presbyteros (πρεσβυτερος), Latin presbyter, is traditionally translated priest; literally, it means elder. The second, hiereus ('ιερευς), Latin sacerdos, refers to priests who offer sacrifices, such as the priesthood of the Jewish Temple, or the priests of pagan gods. The Epistle to the Hebrews draws a distinction between the two types of priesthood; it teaches that atonement by Jesus Christ has made the hiereus or sacerdotal priesthood redundant, in terms of the sacrifices the Jews previously offered. Catholics and Orthodox believe that there is a new priesthood, which offers the sacrifice of Jesus in the form of the Eucharist.
In Eastern Orthodoxy, a priest is sometimes also called a "presbyter" or elder. Priests are considered clergy; a priest can only be ordained by a bishop and with the "axios" or affirmation of the laity of his parish. Only men may become priests; traditionally the minimum age has been 35 in many jurisdictions, although exceptions are made from time to time at the bishop's discretion.
In Roman Catholicism only men may become priests. Priests also cannot marry in the Latin rites of the Roman Catholic church. In most branches of the Anglican church both men and women can become priests and there are no restrictions on marriage. See clerical celibacy for more details of marriage rules in Catholic and Orthodox churches. Among the most significant liturgical acts reserved to priests are his judging and praying with laity in the Sacrament of Repentance (or Confession), and the celebration of the Divine Liturgy (or Eucharist). The presence and ministry of a priest is required for a parish to function normally.
Some branches of Christianity, often within Protestantism, do not use the term "priest" to describe the individual who has an officiating role, because they do not believe in the idea of a sacrificial mass; instead, terms like "Minister" or "Pastor" are often used in its place.
Quakerism does not grant a special priestly role to any individual, partly because Quakers do not practice any special sacraments that require priestly mediation, and partly because they believe that the priesthood of all believers grants the potential of a spiritual and ministerial role to all individuals within the denomination, regardless of sex or status within the faith.
In Judaism, the rabbi is the most imporant clergyperson. However, the role of the Kohen is still extant, although much less important than in Biblical times.
Roman Catholic, Anglican, many American Episcopalian, and some Lutheran priests and pastors wear the stiff white clerical collar (informally "dog collar") around the neck during duties at church or in hospital.
Priest was also the name of a controversial British film, made in the 1994 in Liverpool. It starred Linus Roache as a Roman Catholic priest struggling between his calling as a priest in an inner-city parish and his homosexuality.
- See also monk, nun, shaman, clergy, imam, brahman
- For Catholicism, see Holy Orders.
- For The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), see Priesthood (Mormonism)
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Thomas Boleyn (about 1477 - 12 March 1538/9), Earl of Ormonde and Wiltshire, Viscount Rochford, was born and buried at the family home, Hever Castle.
Through the connections of his extended family, he became one of Henry VIII's leading diplomats. Known missions were:
In between, he sacrificed the members of his family to win favors from King Henry VIII: He garnered honors by letting the king dally with his elder daughter Mary, then marry his younger daughter Anne. It's possible his wife (Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk) had an affair with Henry, though Henry denied it.
- 1512 : one of a party of 3 envoys to the Netherlands.
- 1518 - 1521 : Ambassador to France, where he was involved in arrangements for the "Field of Cloth of Gold" meeting between Henry and the new French king Frances I in 1520.
- 1521 and 1523 : Envoy to Charles, prince of Castile, the Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1527 : One of a large envoy to France
- 1529 : Envoy to a meeting of Charles, Holy Roman Emporor and Pope Clement VII, to seek support for the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon - perhaps not the best person to send when the Henry planned to marry Thomas's own daughter Anne. This was followed by another envoy to France.
Thomas was made earl of Ormond and Wiltshire on December 8 1529, probably due to Anne's relationship with the King.
Thomas acquiesced in the judicial murder of Anne and her brother George when the king discarded Anne in favor of Jane Seymour. The kindest assessment of him is that he was very much a product of the times.
See also
- Palace of Beaulieu
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William Bowyer (1663 - December 27, 1737), English printer, was apprenticed to a printer in 1679, made a liveryman of the Stationers' Company in 1700, and nominated as one of the twenty printers allowed by the Star Chamber.He was burned out in the great fire of 1712, but his loss was partly made good by the subscription of friends and fellow craftsmen, as recorded on a tablet in Stationers' Hall, and in 1713 he returned to his Whitefriars shop and became the leading printer of his day. His son took over the printing business and became known as "the learned printer."
Reference
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Synonyms: FatherSynonyms: begetter (n), beginner (n), forefather (n), founder (n), founding father (n), male parent (n), beget (v), bring forth (v), engender (v), generate (v), get (v), mother (v), sire (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: mother (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Seniority, eldership; elders; (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture. |
Attribution | Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse. |
Clergy | Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor. |
Credulity | Phrase: the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce; omne ignotum pro magnifico. |
Deity | The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father Son and Holy Ghost. |
God the Father; The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver. | |
Desire | Phrase: the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas; hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus. |
Dissimilarity | Phrase: diis aliter visum; " no more like my father than I to Hercules". |
Hope | Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis. |
Misjudgment | Phrase: nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful thinking; unshakable conviction; "my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts". |
Paternity | Parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap. |
Posterity | Phrase: "the child is father of the man"; "the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree", "like father, like son". |
Similarity | Phrase: et sic de similibus; tel maitre tel valet; tel pere tel fils; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block |
The Drama | Company; first tragedian, prima donna, protagonist; jeune premier; debutant, debutante; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso, heavy father, ingenue, jeune veuve. |
Time | Glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Father |
| English words defined with "father": father figure, father surrogate, Foster father, Founding Father ♦ Natural father ♦ Putative father. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "father": Father Mathew, Father Neptune, Father Norbert, Father of his Country, Father of the People, Father of Waters, Father Paul, Father Prout, Father Thames ♦ Glory be to the Father ♦ heir of the part of the father. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "father": Pope. (references) |
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Screenplays | What would my father do (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You're nothing like my father (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) I came to make peace with you, even though you are the father of lies (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Father Bobby would have made a good hit-man (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) | |
Lyrics | I will be your father figure (Father Figure; performing artist: George Michael) Well my father was a gambler down in Georgia, ("Ramblin' Man"; performing artist: Allman Brothers Band) Raising me with no father (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) She dances while his father plays guitar (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows) Read the books your father read (You Gotta Be; performing artist: Des'ree) | |
Clever | By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. (references; author: Mark Twain) A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. (references; author: unknown) Every girl should use what Mother Nature gives her before Father Time takes it away. (references; author: unknown) By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. (references; author: unknown) One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Father (2002) Unwed Father (1974) Oh Father (1973) Honor Thy Father (1973) Like Son Like Father (1973) | |
Song Titles | Father Figure (performing artist: George Michael) Color Him Father (performing artist: The Winstons) | |
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 | A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | The image shows a father holding a young child on his lap. They seem to be watching an event outside of the picture. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Proud father and child who received the 100 millionth smallpox vaccination. In background (right) Dr. J.D. Millar, Director, Bureau of State Services, CDC, and Mr. Gordon Robbins, Bureau of Smallpox Eradication, CDC, 1969. Credit: CDC. |  | Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Submarine valleys of Georges Bank Contoured by Dr. Francis P. Shepard, "the father of marine geology" Work done by OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Robert Fauntleroy Mentor of George Davidson, father of his future wife Died of cholera on Texas coast in 1848. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | This youngster wanted to grow up and be just like Dad. An Eskimo toddler dreams of hunting on the Bering Sea with his father. F&WS 1166. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The engineers who built the Marble Point landing strip - the first ground strip in Antartica. Back row - Bill McTigue, Navy Hydro Office; Commander Stephens, USN; __; Dr. Bob Nichols, Tufts University; front row - ___; Father Linehan, Wesson Observatory; ___. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Father and son fishing off the Isle of Palms Causeway. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Photo #1 - Three generations of fishermen - father, grandfather, and grandson share the surf and sun at Cape Hatteras. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Father 1" by Erico Dias Commentary: "My father, at carnival 1973." | "Father" by Roberto La Mela Commentary: "Old Man." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. |
Euripides | To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. |
Galileo Galilei | Doubt is the father of invention. |
George Herbert | One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. |
Jean De La Bruyere | If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. |
Lamartine | If God is thy father, man is thy brother. |
Publilius Syrus | An angry father is most cruel toward himself. |
Voltaire | Work is often the father of pleasure. |
William Wordsworth | The child is the father of the man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will do towards Alexander, king of Scots, concerning the return of his sisters and his hostages, and concerning his franchises, and his right, in the same manner as we shall do towards our owher barons of England, unless it ought to be otherwise according to the charters which we hold from William his father, formerly king of Scots; and this shall be according to the judgment of his peers in our court. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | If this made the father free, it shall make the son free too. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father. |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | His father courteously tried to make amends for his nonchalance |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy, insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An old man, named Father Fauchelevent, had fallen under his cart, his horse being thrown down |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His mother had a nicer smell than his father. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Good grandam, tell us, is our father dead |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His father opened the barn and passed out two picks and three shovels |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Whereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably |
The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Ariel (singing): Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In a very small number of cases, XXY males have been able to father children. (references) | |
Every person gets half their genes from their mother and half from their father. (references) | ||
We inherit one chromosome of each pair from our mother and the other from our father. (references) | ||
Business | Courts usually grant custody to the father regardless of the child's age in divorce cases. (references) | |
In the majority of Korean households, the father is the primary source of income, though the double income family is increasing due to social changes and, as of recent, economic necessity. (references) | ||
The gated communities, most of which are built around golf courses, give families the opportunity to engage in different sports activities within the same area, so that while the father plays golf, the wife and children are able to practice other sports or activities in close proximity. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | Poroj continued to threaten the father, but also offered him a bribe to drop the case. (references) |
Morocco | If a father does not register his child, the child is without civil status and the benefits of citizenship. (references) | |
Guatemala | The prosecutor assigned to the case, Villar Anleu, gave little importance to the case and appeared to resent the father for bringing the case. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | His father also was arrested and sentenced to a lengthy term. (references) |
India | On May 7, a Christian priest, Father Jaideep, was attacked in Jatni town, Orissa. (references) | |
Honduras | La Tribuna was founded by the late father of the President and still is run by his family. (references) | |
Economic History | Vanuatu | One of the founders was Father Walter Lini, who later became Prime Minister. (references) |
Bahrain | In 2001, Amir Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa made his first visit to the U.S. after succeeding his father in 1999. (references) | |
Qatar | On June 27, 1995, the Deputy Ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, deposed his father Emir Khalifa in a bloodless coup. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Billon told his father and leaders of the RDR about the plot. (references) |
Germany | Border police claim that the father and an older child violently resisted deportation. (references) | |
Jamaica | The man's son said that he witnessed the police shoot his father while his hands were on his head. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Norway | National/Racial/Minorities In January a 15-year-old boy with an African father was killed in Oslo. (references) |
Minorities | Georgia | Father Mkashvilli warned them that they were building a Satanist house and that they better stop their work. (references) |
Comoros | The Christian leader's father was forced to pay a fine, and the leader's family had to leave Domoni for a month. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | On October 19, a Catholic priest, Father Nguyen Van Ly, was sentenced to an unusually harsh 15 years in prison. (references) |
Luxembourg | Grand Duke Henri has been the head of state since the October 7, 2000 abdication of his father, Jean, who had ruled since 1964. (references) | |
Bhutan | Since ascending the throne in 1972, the King has continued the efforts toward social and political modernization begun by his father. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The father must approve the departure of any children. (references) |
Egypt | Even if the children bear American passports, immigration officials may require proof that the father approves of their departure before the children will be allowed to leave Egypt. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | Citizenship passes through the father. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | The boy's father claimed that an agent who promised them an attractive salary had brought the family to the country. (references) |
India | In August another inmate tested positive for pregnancy, and it was discovered that the janitor was the inmates' baby's father. (references) | |
Ethiopia | The case was prosecuted in the courts, and the father was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison; this was the first case of this kind. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Quaid | Very similar, I got to say. My son's my best friend. And that's what I brought to the party. Jim is that way, too. The guy I play. He's that kind of dad. Then they also had the relationship between him and his own father, which is not so great. |
Halle Berry | Life. Probably when I was ten, and my father, who had left us, came back to live with us for a year. That was probably one of the worst years of my life. |
Karl Lagerfeld | My father, he had all the business in France. He did, he had a factory with condensed milk, nothing to do with it. |
Lynda Carter | They're both still living. But I have to say that I think my father is one of my best friends. He is just an inspiration, as is my mother. |
Marlo Thomas | You know when I was a kid, my father used to take me to the studio with him. He was making movies with Margaret O'Brien. He made two in a row with Margaret O'Brien. |
Michael Chertoff | I don't know that I would talk to the father. I think usually, when we make decisions about charging, at least initially, we don't make those based on family issues. We make it based on the facts and the law. |
Pierce Brosnan | There's a certain typecasting there. But this is about a common and that's kind of closer to who I am than Remington Steele or James Bonds. You know, I'm Irish. I'm a father. |
Robert Novak | Chairman Leahy, the best comparison on the confirmation of judges, I think, for how George W. Bush has done is how the last Republican president did in the first two years of his presidency with a Democratic Senate, and that happened to be his father. |
Rudolph Giuliani | Sure, and that's tragic. And I think I feel horrible for Mr. Diallo's family. And when it first happened, I called his father and helped his father come to the United States. We would do anything to try to reverse the incident. |
Sean Penn | Well, what I grew up with is the example of a great father who was a great man and a patriot, who was not embittered by that time, but felt it was, you know, an unfortunate incident of some kind of mass intoxication in this country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | A letter from the Emperor of Morocco announces to me his recognition of our treaty made with his father, the late Emperor, and consequently the continuance of peace with that power. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I believe this not because I am told to believe it, but because life has been better for me than it was for my father and my mother. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Lisa Zannata Henn began her story by quoting her father, who promised that he would return to Normandy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Nearly one in three American children grows up without a father. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Father" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.57% of the time. "Father" is used about 23,625 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.57% | 21,869 | 409 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.4% | 1,747 | 4,816 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23,625 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "father". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Avia | N/A | N/A | The Lord is my father |
| Avra | N/A | N/A | Father of a great multitude |
| Ibrahim | N/A | Arabic | Father of a great multitude |
| Abagtha | N/A | Biblical | Father of the wine-press |
| Abba | N/A | Biblical | Father |
| Abi | N/A | Biblical | My father |
| Abiah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my father |
| Abi-albon | N/A | Biblical | Most intelligent father |
| Abiasaph | N/A | Biblical | Consuming father |
| Abiathar | N/A | Biblical | Excellent father |
| Abiathar | N/A | Biblical | Father of the remnant |
| Abidah | N/A | Biblical | Father of knowledge |
| Abidan | N/A | Biblical | Father of judgment |
| Abiel | N/A | Biblical | God my father |
| Abiezer | N/A | Biblical | Father of help |
| Abihail | N/A | Biblical | The father of strength |
| Abihu | N/A | Biblical | He is my father |
| Abihud | N/A | Biblical | Father of praise |
| Abijah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my father |
| Abijam | N/A | Biblical | Father of the sea |
| Abilene | N/A | Biblical | The father of mourning |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "father": Adoptive father ♦ Apostolic father ♦ authority of father ♦ be the spit of smb.'s father ♦ church Father ♦ city father ♦ doting father ♦ father Brown ♦ father christmas ♦ father confessor ♦ father day ♦ father figure ♦ Father in God ♦ father in law ♦ Father longlegs ♦ Father of lies ♦ Father of the bar ♦ Father of the Faithful ♦ father of the family ♦ Father of the house ♦ father on ♦ father smth. on smb. ♦ father superior ♦ father surrogate ♦ father time ♦ father upon ♦ Foster father ♦ founding father ♦ God the Father Son and Holy Ghost ♦ grand father ♦ he is his father all over ♦ he is the picture of his father ♦ heavy father ♦ heir of the part of the father ♦ holy father ♦ like father ♦ like father like son ♦ most Reverend Father in God ♦ mother and father ♦ my father ♦ natural father ♦ our Father ♦ our heavenly father ♦ ours father ♦ penny father ♦ pilgrim father ♦ putative father ♦ reputed father ♦ reverend father ♦ shrift father ♦ spiritual father ♦ step father ♦ take after one's father ♦ the Father of Radio ♦ The Holy Father ♦ the wish the father to the thought ♦ To father on ♦ to father upon ♦ widowed father ♦ your father. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "father": father-and-son, Father-Child Relations, father-coach, father-complex, father-confessor, father-daughter, father-figure, father-figures, Father-God, father-husband, father-husbands, Father-in-common-law, Father-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law, Father-in-law-to-be, father-in-science, father-i-want-to-kill-you, father-just, father-killer, father-king, Father-lasher, father-like, father-love, father-more, father-mother, father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal, father-my, father-never, father-of, father-of-five, father-of-four, father-of-one, father-of-seven, father-of-six, father-of-three, father-of-two, father-protest, father-religion, father-replacements, father-role, father-son, father-substitute, father-surrogates, Father-to-be, father-to-son. | |
Ending with "father": grand-father, step-father. | |
Containing "father": Ex-father-in-law, mother-father-child. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
father day | 28,627 | father day ecard | 804 |
father day card | 14,361 | father day greeting card | 773 |
father day poem | 11,666 | free father day e card | 764 |
father day gift | 11,099 | 2003 day father | 754 |
father day craft | 6,116 | card day father print | 741 |
father | 3,792 | art clip day father | 670 |
printable father day card | 3,101 | father and daughter | 657 |
free father day card | 2,753 | father day greeting | 652 |
father day gift idea | 1,747 | clipart day father | 641 |
poem for father | 1,682 | father day poetry | 625 |
card day father free printable | 1,582 | history of father day | 584 |
father s day | 1,424 | father and son | 569 |
father day e card | 1,113 | happy father day | 543 |
father day sermon | 1,084 | father day picture | 530 |
father day idea | 983 | father day activity | 509 |
father day craft for kid | 959 | day father joke | 497 |
dance father | 949 | father day craft idea | 481 |
father day quote | 905 | coloring day father page | 460 |
father right | 894 | father day present | 440 |
when is father day | 840 | father quote | 436 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "father"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pa (Paris). (various references) | |
Albanian | baba (dad, daddy, pa, Papa, pater, paterfamilias, pop, Poppa, sire), atë (her, him, it, padre, sire, that). (various references) | |
Arabic | نجب (beget, procreate, sire), ولد (baby, bear, beget, born, boy, breed, bring forth, deliver, engender, fall, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, mother, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son, spawn), والد (papa), سلف (ancestor, forebear, forefather, granddad, predecessors, primogenitor, progenitor), الله (allah, god, maker, the creator), الأب (patriarch), الآب, أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), أب (dad, papa), بابا (dad). (various references) | |
Asturian | pa. (various references) | |
Aymara | auqui. (various references) | |
Basque | aita. (various references) | |
Bemba | tata. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | inn. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | родоначалник (founder, patriarch, progenitor, stirps), татко (dad, daddy, pa, pop), отче, отец (sire), баща (dad, governor, pater, sire), прародител (ancestor, primogenitor, progenitor), праотец (ancestor, ascendant, forbear, forefather, predecessor, primogenitor), духовен баща. (various references) | |
Catalan | pare. (various references) | |
Cebuano | amahan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | tata. (various references) | |
Chinese | 父親 , 父亲 (Paternal), 父 , 爸爸 , 爸 (dad, pa, papa), 椿 (Cedrela chinensis, tree of heaven). (various references) | |
Cornish | tás. (various references) | |
Czech | otec (parent). (various references) | |
Danish | far (male, sire), fader (male, sire). (various references) | |
Dutch | vader, pater. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | taita. (various references) | |
Esperanto | patro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | faðir. (various references) | |
Farsi | پدری کردن (Sire), پدر (Sire), موسس (Author, Originator), موجد, والد, بوجوداوردن (Arise, Beget, Generate, Inbreed, Make). (various references) | |
Finnish | isä (dad). (various references) | |
French | père. (various references) | |
Frisian | heit. (various references) | |
German | Vater (begetter, padre, parent, sire), pater (padre). (various references) | |
Greek | πατέρασ, πατέρας (male, sire). (various references) | |
Guarani | túva, taita, ru. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | baba, atë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אב (ancestor, chief, creator, master, parent, pater, principal, progenitor, teacher). (various references) | |
Hungarian | atya (begetter), apa (begetter, dad, daddy, old man, pa, parent, pater, sire). (various references) | |
Icelandic | faðir. (various references) | |
Indonesian | papa (daddy, destitute, poor), bapak (dad, daddy, papa), baba (older man), ayah (begetter, dad, daddy). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ataata. (various references) | |
Irish | athair. (various references) | |
Italian | padre (governor, padre, sire), babbo (dad, daddy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 父. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おとうさん, おとこおや (male parent), ふくん (one's husband), とうさん (bankruptcy, farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions, insolvency), ててご, ちちぎみ, ちちおや, ちちうえ, ちちご, ちち (breast, lagging, loop, milk, slow), だいふ (godfather). (various references) | |
Kongo | se. (various references) | |
Korean | 아버지 (Paternal). (various references) | |
Lombard | pader. (various references) | |
Luganda | taata. (various references) | |
Macedonian | tatko. (various references) | |
Malagasy | ray. (various references) | |
Malay | bapak. (various references) | |
Manx | shennayr (ancestor, ascendant, forebear, forefather, grandfather, grandparent, progenitor), kiaddey (coinage, coining, design, designing, fashion, form, formation, model, modelling, shape), jishig (pappa), croo (appearance, build, coinage, coining, create, creation, form, format, invent, phase of moon, shape), ayr (creeper, father figure, generator, mover, padre). (various references) | |
Maori | matua taane. (various references) | |
Maya | taatah. (various references) | |
Mohawk | -'niha. (various references) | |
Norwegian | far. (various references) | |
Occitan | paire. (various references) | |
Papago | pahl. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tata, papa (gruel, mess, mush). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | papa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atherfay.(various references) | |
Polish | ojciec. (various references) | |
Portuguese | pai (dad, getter, old man, parent, sire). (various references) | |
Provencal | paire. (various references) | |
Quechua | tata. (various references) | |
Romanian | pãrinte (generator, padre, parent), întemeietor (founder, raiser), autor (author, contriver, creator, doer, hand, originator, penman, perpetrator, promoter, starter, writer), cel mai vârstnic, crea (build, coin, compose, construct, create, devise, engender, found, give forth, organize, originate, produce, write), creator (architect, author, constructive, creative, creator, fitter, founder, original, originator), da naştere la (beget, breed, bring, engender, gender, give birth to, give rise to, spawn), înfia (affiliate, legitimate), iniţiator (author, initiator, originator, pioneer), zãmisli (conceive, engender, form, get), pãrinte spiritual, preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, incumbent, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, rector, Reverend, rook, vicar), strãbun (ancestor, ancestors', ancient, antique, forefather, forefathers, forefathers', patriarch, predecessor, primogenitor, progenitor), strãmoş (ancestor, forbear, forbears, forefather, forefathers, grandsire, great grandfather, patriarch, predecessor, primogenitor, progenitor), taicã, tatã (daddie, daddy, governor, parent, pop), duhovnic (confessor, spiritual adviser, spiritual director). (various references) | |
Romansch | bab. (various references) | |
Romany | dad. (various references) | |
Ruanda | data. (various references) | |
Russian | отец (pater, sire). (various references) | |
Samoan | tama. (various references) | |
Scottish | athair. (various references) | |
Sepedi | tate. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvorac (author, creator, maker, originator, reproducer), stvoriti (beget, breed, create, make, originate, procreate, produce), predak (ancestor, forbear, predecessor, progenitor), otac (old man, papa, pater), osnivač (founder, originator). (various references) | |
Shona | baba. (various references) | |
Sicilian | patri. (various references) | |
Sotho | ntate (Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Spanish | padre (dad, f, parent, pater, Reverend, senior, sire). (various references) | |
Sranan | tata, p'pa, papa (flatter). (various references) | |
Swahili | baba. (various references) | |
Swazi | babé. (various references) | |
Swedish | far (pater), fader (procreator, sire), pappa (dad, daddy, pa, papa, Pappy, pater, pop, Poppa). (various references) | |
Tagalog | amá. (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นพ่อ, พระในศาสนาคริสต์, บิดา (sire), ผู้ก่อตั้ง (founder), ก่อตั้ง (lay, locate). (various references) | |
Tswana | rre (Mr.). (various references) | |
Turkish | baba (begetter, dad, daddy, goodman, governor, guv, guvnor, old man, pa, Papa, pater, Pere, pop, senior, sire, the governor, the old man), ata (ancestor, ataturk, elder, forbear, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor, sire). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цweя (adopted), kaka, dдde (uncle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | родоначальник (patriarch, root), творець (architect, author, creator, demiurge, former, maker, molder, moulder, original, originator, protoplast), бути батьком (beget), батько (begetter, procreator), породжувати (breed, bring forth, engender, gender, generate, germinate, mother, originate, procreate, proliferate, reproduce, spawn). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người sản sinh ra tổ tiên, người cha Chúa, người đẻ ra, cha (dad, daddy, parent, paterfamilias, patresfamilias), cụ, ông tổ người thầy. (various references) | |
Welsh | tad. (various references) | |
Wolof | baay. (various references) | |
Xhosa | tata. (various references) | |
Yucatec | tata (grandfather), tat (grandfather), papah (pope). (various references) | |
Zulu | ubaba (gentleman, lord, Mr.). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. pa, a, a-a, ab-ba, ada, agarin. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abba, abbas abbatis, antipater, antipatrum, atad, attarates, creator, creatori, creatoris, genera, generabis, generabit, generabunt, generans, generant, generantur, generas, generasti, generat, generate, generator, generavit, genitores, gigno (genuit), parens, parentem, parentes, parenti, parentibus, parentis, parentum, pater, pater patris, pater, patris, patre, patrem, patres, patri, patriarchae, patribus, patris, patrum, regeneravit, reverendus pater, sator. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | pitar, patar, ptar. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 47, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Idou h gh aiguptou enantion sou estin en th beltisth gh katoikison ton patera sou kai touV adelfouV sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Terra Aegypti in conspectu tuo est in optimo loco fac habitare eos et trade eis terram Gessen quod si nosti esse in eis viros industrios constitue illos magistros pecorum meorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The loond of Egipte is in thi siyt, in the beste place make hem to dwelle, and tak to hem the loond of Gessen; and if thow hast knowe to be redi men in hem, ordeyne hem maystrys of my beestis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The londe of Egipte is open before the: In the best place of the lande make both thy father and thy brothren dwell: And even in the lond of Gosan let them dwell. Moreouer yf thou knowe any men of actiuyte amonge them make them ruelars ouer my catell. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 47, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ang yuta sa Egipto anaa sa atubangan mo; papuy-on mo sa labing maayong yuta ang imong amahan ug ang imong mga igsoon nga lalake; papuy-on mo sila sa yuta sa Gosen; ug kong makamatngon ka nga sa ilang taliwala adunay mga tawo nga mga masingkamuton ibutang mo sila sa pagkapangulo nga mga magbalantay sa akong mga vaca. |
| Danish | Ægypten står til din Rådighed, lad din Fader og dine Brødre bosætte sig i den bedste Del af Landet; de kan tage Ophold i Gosens Land; og hvis du ved, at der er dygtige Folk iblandt dem, kan du sætte dem til Opsynsmænd over mine Hjorde!" |
| Dutch | Egypteland is voor uw aangezicht; doe uw vader en uw broeders in het beste van het land wonen; laat hen in het land Gosen wonen, en zo gij weet, dat er onder hen kloeke mannen zijn, zo zet hen tot veemeesters over hetgeen ik heb. |
| Finnish | Egyptin maa on avoinna sinun edessäsi; sijoita isäsi ja veljesi maan parhaaseen osaan. Asukoot Goosenin maakunnassa; ja jos tiedät heidän joukossaan olevan kelvollisia miehiä, niin aseta heidät minun karjani päällysmiehiksi." |
| French | Le pays d`Égypte est devant toi; établis ton père et tes frères dans la meilleure partie du pays. Qu`ils habitent dans le pays de Gosen; et, si tu trouves parmi eux des hommes capables, mets-les à la tête de mes troupeaux. |
| German | das Land Ägypten steht dir offen, laß sie am besten Ort des Landes wohnen, laß sie im Lande Gosen wohnen; und so du weißt, daß Leute unter ihnen sind, die tüchtig sind, so setze sie über mein Vieh. |
| Haitian Creole | tout peyi Lejip la la devan ou. Chwazi pi bon tè nan peyi a, ba yo l' pou rete. Yo mèt rete sou tè Gochenn lan. Epi, si ou konnen gen nan mitan yo moun ki kapab pran swen bèt pa m' yo, ou mèt ba yo bèt mwen yo gade. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Anggaplah negeri Mesir sebagai negerimu sendiri. Biarlah mereka menetap di daerah Gosyen, daerah yang paling baik di negeri ini. Dan tugaskanlah kepada orang yang cakap bekerja untuk mengurus ternakku." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tanah Mesir ini adalah di hadapanmu, dudukkanlah bapamu dan segala saudaramu di tanah yang terbaik, suruhlah mereka itu duduk di negeri Gosyen. Maka jikalau engkau tahu bahwa di antara mereka itu ada orang yang pandai, jadikanlah mereka itu penghulu gembala atas segala milikku. |
| Italian | Ebbene, il paese d'Egitto è a tua disposizione: fà risiedere tuo padre e i tuoi fratelli nella parte migliore del paese. Risiedano pure nel paese di Gosen. Se tu sai che vi sono tra di loro uomini capaci, costituiscili sopra i miei averi in qualità di sovrintendenti al bestiame». |
| Maori | Kei tou aroaro te whenua o Ihipa; whakanohoia e koe tou papa me ou tuakana ki te wahi pai o te whenua; kia noho ratou ki te whenua o Kohena: ki te mea hoki e mohiotia ana e koe etahi tangata pakari i roto i a ratou, meinga ratou hei rangatira mo aku kararehe. |
| Norwegian | Egyptens land ligger åpent for dig; la din far og dine brødre bo i den beste del av landet, la dem bo i Gosen! Og dersom du vet at det er dyktige menn iblandt dem, da sett dem til opsynsmenn over min buskap! |
| Rumanian | Yara Egiptului este deschisq knaintea ta; aweazq pe tatql tqu wi pe frayii tqi kn cea mai bunq parte a yqrii. Sq locuiascq kn yinutul Gosen; wi dacq gqsewti printre ei oameni destoinici, pune -i kn fruntea turmelor mele.`` |
| Russian | ЪЕНМС еЗЙРЕФУЛБС РТЕД ФПВПА; ОБ МХЮЫЕН НЕУФЕ ЪЕНМЙ РПУЕМЙ ПФГБ ФЧПЕЗП Й ВТБФШЕЧ ФЧПЙИ; РХУФШ ЦЙЧХФ ПОЙ Ч ЪЕНМЕ зЕУЕН; Й ЕУМЙ ЪОБЕЫШ, ЮФП НЕЦДХ ОЙНЙ ЕУФШ УРПУПВОЩЕ МАДЙ, РПУФБЧШ ЙИ УНПФТЙФЕМСНЙ ОБД НПЙН УЛПФПН. |
| Spanish | la tierra de Egipto está delante de ti. En lo mejor de la tierra haz habitar a tu padre y a tus hermanos; habiten en la tierra de Gosén. Y si juzgas que hay entre ellos hombres aptos, ponlos como mayorales de mi ganado. |
| Swedish | Egyptens land ligger öppet för dig; i den bästa delen av landet må du låta din fader och dina bröder bo. Må de bo i landet Gosen, och ifall du vet om några bland dem att de äro dugande män, så sätt dessa till uppsyningsmän över min boskap." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "father": fathered, fatherhood, fatherhoods, fathering, fatherland, fatherlands, fatherless, fatherlike, fatherliness, fatherlinesses, fatherly, fathers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "father": forefather, godfather, grandfather, housefather, stepfather. (additional references) | |
Words containing "father": forefathers, godfathered, godfathering, godfathers, grandfathered, grandfathering, grandfatherly, grandfathers, housefathers, stepfathers, unfathered. (additional references) | |
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"Father" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ather, cather, Fachwerk, Fadhel, Fadhil, Faha, Faheem, Fahr, Fakhar, Fakhuri, Fasher, fatber, fater, fath, fathe, fathed, fathem, fathis, fathow, Fathy, fatue, fauter, felther, Fethard, fether, Feyther, fhather, Fifther, filther, Fitzhenry, flatcher, Fother, fter, fthe, futehr, futher, jathuk, pather, sathor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "father" (pronounced fÄ"ther) |
| 3 | -Ä" th er | bother. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hafter, trefah. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: after, earth, hater, heart, rathe. | |
-2 letters: eath, fare, fate, fear, feat, feta, frae, frat, fret, haet, haft, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, heft, raft, rate, rath, reft, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, tref. | |
-3 letters: aft, are, arf, art, ate, ear, eat, eft, era, eta, eth, far, fat, feh, fer, fet, hae, hat, her. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: farther, fathers, feather, hafters, terefah. | |
+2 letters: farthest, fathered, fatherly, feathers, feathery. | |
+3 letters: aftermath, fathering, feathered, forgather, fraughted, gearshift, godfather, headfirst, heartfelt, heatproof, hereafter, ratfishes, threadfin. | |
+4 letters: affrighted, afterbirth, aftermaths, aftershave, aftershock, airfreight, beachfront, driveshaft, farfetched, farsighted, fatherhood, fatherland, fatherless, fatherlike, fatshedera, featherbed, featherier, feathering, flycatcher, forefather, foregather, forgathers, frameshift, freightage, freshwater, gearshifts, godfathers, hardfisted, hereafters, hovercraft, interfaith, pathfinder, pinfeather, starfishes, stepfather, thereafter, threadfins, ultrafiche, unfathered. | |
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