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"FATHERS" is a plural of: father. |
Date "FATHERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Male parents, human or animal. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian church, particularly those of the first five centuries CE. Those who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers, and those who wrote in Greek the Greek (Church) Fathers.Famous Latin Fathers include Saint Augustine of Hippo, the Montanist Tertullian, and Saint Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate; famous Greek Fathers include the heterodox Origen, Saint Irenaeus, Saint Clement of Alexandria, and Saint John Chrysostom.
The Desert Fathers were monastics living in the Egyptian desert; although they did not write as much, their influence was also great. Among them are Saint Anthony and Saint Pachomius.
A small number of other Fathers wrote in other languages: Saint Ephraem, for example, wrote in Syriac, but his works were widely translated into Latin and Greek.
Many of their works have been translated into English and made available to read online or download and print, at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Church father."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead. |
Judeo-Christian Revelation | Prophet; (seer); evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint; the Fathers, the Apostolical Fathers; Holy Men of old, inspired penmen. |
Theology | Theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FATHERS |
| English words defined with "FATHERS": act on, Adjutant general, Augustine ♦ Bartolommeo Eustachio ♦ Eustachio ♦ father, Forefathers' Day ♦ in vain ♦ Leiden, Leyden ♦ Mayflower ♦ Oratorian, Origenism ♦ patriarch, patristic, patristical, Patristics ♦ Redemptorist ♦ Saint Augustine, scholasticism ♦ vainly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FATHERS": Adverbs for Relative Pronouns, ANCESTORS ♦ Babel, tower of ♦ Fathers of the Church, Fathers of the Greek Church, Fathers of the Latin Church ♦ Husband's Boat ♦ Jon Postel, JUNE 17 ♦ Last of the Fathers, Lie with One's Fathers ♦ Maccabees, Books of the, MARAT, Margaret, Master of Sentences ♦ PALLIARDS ♦ Questionists ♦ River of Paradise ♦ Sabbath, Sacred Isle, Samaritan Pentateuch. (references) |
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Screenplays | At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Okay so we're taken to jail. The other kids' fathers bail them out, mine left me there for two days (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) I owe that to my fathers, not to my sons (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) Personally, I think a boys penis should look just like his fathers. (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell) | |
Lyrics | Well our fathers fought the Second World War (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel) Come mothers and fathers all over the land ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) And once proud fathers act so humble (UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT; performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Clever | It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fathers and Sons (1971) Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (1955) Fathers Are People (1951) Sins of the Fathers (1948) No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons Screen Snapshots Series 25 (1946) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seahorse fathers rear their young in a pouch, like kangaroos. Hippocampus erectus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Tommy Rogers pushes a load of tobacco into a drying barn on his fathers farm in the Danville, VA area. Credit: USDA. |
 | Most babies with AIDS are born to mothers or fathers who have shot drugs. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | How fathers have changed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Some fathers of the ancient game. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mission of Santa Barbara, Mission fathers at the fountain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | San Miguel Mission. Erected 1797 by the Franciscan Fathers. California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their c. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Following the paths of our fathers in the ranks of the Polish army for motherland and freedom / W. T. Benda. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The founding fathers of the O.A.U. : 10th anniversary memorial. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Old weight" by Thomas Johansson Commentary: "Another shot of my fathers old weight. Love the look of it..." | "Chucky" by Rene Cerney Commentary: "Chucky from the movie Childs Play. This one is actually my fathers, i left mine in the back window of my car over the summer and his face turned wicked black like he was on fire." |
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Aristotle | Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. |
Croesus | In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. |
Euripides | Noble fathers have noble children. |
Giuseppe Mazzini | Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. |
Horace | Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. |
Ihara Saikaku | Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. |
Miguel De Cervantes | No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. |
President John F. Kennedy | There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. |
Terence | What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | But, it is plain, governments themselves understand it otherwise; they claim no power over the son, because of that they had over the father; nor look on children as being their subjects, by their fathers being so. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1948) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | For the liberation of fathers of families imprisoned for debt, one thousand livres |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Their fathers were magistrates, the fellows said |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bigger boys squatted beside their fathers, because that made them men. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Individuals with juvenile HD usually inherit the disease from their fathers. (references) | |
The vast majority of XXY males do not produce enough sperm to allow them to become fathers. (references) | ||
Men tend to inherit an X chromosome from their mothers, and a Y chromosome from their fathers. (references) | ||
Business | Older children live with their fathers unless judicial authorities decide otherwise. (references) | |
In the early eighties, the location of golf courses relatively far from home and other sports facilities separated fathers from the rest of the family members who engaged in other activities. (references) | ||
Children | Singapore | This agency, along with several NGO's, particularly focuses on keeping fathers involved in their children's lives and on preventing child abuse. (references) |
Jordan | Furthermore, illegitimate children who are not acknowledged legally by their fathers are considered stateless and are not given passports or identity numbers. (references) | |
Brazil | NGO's report that extreme poverty at home or sexual abuse by fathers and stepfathers are the principal reasons that many children choose to live in the streets. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Unmarried women under the age of 21 must have permission from their fathers to obtain passports and travel. (references) |
Eritrea | Among the deportees were women who alleged that they were prevented from taking their children with them because their fathers were Eritreans. (references) | |
Iraq | The Government prevents many citizens who also hold citizenship in another country, especially the children of Iraqi fathers and foreign-born mothers, from visiting the country of their other nationality. (references) | |
Economic History | Rwanda | The first European known to have visited Rwanda was German Count Von Goetzen in 1894. He was followed by missionaries, notably the "White Fathers." In 1899, the mwami submitted to a German protectorate without resistance. (references) |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | The families of these children have been told that the children would be released when their fathers surrendered to the Taliban. (references) |
Vietnam | In July the Chairman of the People's Committee of Lam Dong Province told visiting foreign diplomats that Phu had violated the law by denouncing the achievements of the country and its founding fathers. (references) | |
Minorities | Saudi Arabia | Under the law, children of Saudi fathers are considered Muslim, regardless of the country or the religious tradition in which they may have been raised. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | In some cases, children raised in other countries and in other religious traditions later taken by their Saudi fathers back to the country reportedly were coerced to conform to their fathers' interpretation of Islamic norms and practices. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Under Islamic law, fathers are favored in child custody cases. (references) |
Travel | Korea | Though fathers are the primary income earners, in the majority of cases, salaries are entrusted to their wives, and most day to day consumption decisions are at the discretion of the female spouse. (references) |
Women | Zimbabwe | The law recognizes women's right to own property independently of their husbands or fathers. (references) |
Lebanon | Accordingly, children born to citizen mothers and foreign fathers are not eligible for citizenship. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Our Founding Fathers were supreme champions of freedom of speech. |
Larry Elder | Well, it's a book that says the founding fathers were people who believed that Americans should be trusted with their own money and their own freedom, and that we have drastically drifted away from that. |
Rush Limbaugh | Remember, the Founding Fathers had a brilliant understanding of the human spirit to be free in all aspects. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | With this principle our fathers extended the hand of friendship to every nation of the globe, and to this policy our country has ever since adhered. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Unless the American people have degenerated, the same result can be again effected when ever experience points out the necessity of a resort to the same means to uphold the fabric which their fathers have reared. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Our fathers decided for themselves, both upon the hour to declare and the hour to strike. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | There are hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers who never completed grammar school-who will see their children graduate from college. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In particular, I challenge fathers to love and care for their children. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. |
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| "FATHERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.42% of the time. "FATHERS" is used about 1,217 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 (plural) | 94.42% | 1,149 | 6,679 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.42% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,217 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "FATHERS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Oboth | N/A | Biblical | Fathers |
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Expressions using "FATHERS": Apostolic fathers ♦ Conscript fathers ♦ Conscript fathers etc ♦ fathers day ♦ Fathers of the city ♦ Fathers of the Oratory ♦ founding fathers ♦ gathered to one's fathers ♦ on one's fathers side ♦ pilgrim fathers ♦ primitive Fathers ♦ the city fathers ♦ the Fathers ♦ to be gathered to one's fathers ♦ to one's people or to one's fathers. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FATHERS": Fathers-in-law, fathers-to-be. | |
Ending with "FATHERS": Fore-fathers, non-fathers, step-fathers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FATHERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vdekur (asleep, dead, deceased, decedent, defunct, departed, extinct, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, lifeless, stone-dead). (various references) | |
Chinese | 開國元勛 (founding fathers). (various references) | |
Czech | otcová mìsta (the city fathers). (various references) | |
Dutch | Provinciaal v.d. Paters Capucijnen (Provincial of the Capuchin Fathers). (various references) | |
Finnish | kirkkoisät (Fathers of the Church). (various references) | |
French | pères. (various references) | |
German | Väter (begetters, founding fathers). (various references) | |
Greek | πεθεροί (fathers-in-law). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyházatyák (fathers of the church). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 父親の威光を笠に着る (to shelter oneself under his fathers influence), 地震雷火事親父 , ピストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ピルグリムファーザーズ (Pilgrim Fathers), じしんかみなりかじおやじ, ちちおやのいこうをかさにきる (to shelter oneself under his fathers influence). (various references) | |
Manx | bun-ayraghyn (founding fathers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | athersfay.(various references) | |
Russian | основатель (constitutor, erector, founder, founding father, founding fathers). (various references) | |
Swedish | förfäder (ancestors, ancestry, antecedents), fäder. (various references) | |
Turkish | baba tarafından (on one's fathers side, on the paternal side, paternal), amerika'nın kurucuları (founding fathers). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 72 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Poihsai eleoV meta twn paterwn hmwn kai mnhsqhnai diaqhkhV agiaV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ad faciendam misericordiam cum patribus nostris et memorari testamenti sui sancti |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Mildheortnesse to wyrcænne mid urum fæderum. and gemunan his halegan cyþnesse; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | To do merci with oure fadris, and to haue mynde of his hooli testament. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers and to remember his holy covenaunt. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word, |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 72 |
| Cebuano | aron sa pagtuman sa kaluoy nga iyang gisaad ngadto sa atong mga ginikanan, ug sa paghinumdom sa iyang balaang pakigsaad, |
| Chinese | 向 我 們 列 祖 施 憐 憫 、 記 念 他 的 聖 約 ． |
| Croatian | iskazati dobrotu ocima našim i sjetiti se svetog Saveza svojega, |
| Danish | for at gøre Barmhjertighed imod vore Fædre og ihukomme sin hellige Pagt, |
| Dutch | Opdat Hij barmhartigheid deed aan onze vaderen, en gedachtig ware aan Zijn heilig verbond; |
| Finnish | tehdäkseen laupeuden meidän isillemme ja muistaakseen pyhän liittonsa, |
| French | C`est ainsi qu`il manifeste sa miséricorde envers nos pères, Et se souvient de sa sainte alliance, |
| German | und Barmherzigkeit erzeigte unsern Vätern und gedächte an seinen heiligen Bund |
| Haitian Creole | Se konsa la gen pitye pou zansèt nou yo. Li chonje kontra li menm Bondye te pase ak yo a. |
| Hungarian | Hogy irgalmasságot cselekedjék a mi atyáinkkal, és megemlékezzék az õ szent szövetségérõl, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Untuk menunjukkan kemurahan hati-Nya kepada leluhur kita, janji-Nya yang suci itu akan ditepati-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Supaya Ia menunjukkan kasihan-Nya kepada nenek moyang kita, serta mengenang perjanjian-Nya yang kudus, |
| Italian | Così egli ha concesso misericordia ai nostri padri e si è ricordato della sua santa alleanza, |
| Korean | 우 리 조 상 을 긍 휼 히 여 기 시 며 그 거 룩 한 언 약 을 기 억 하 셨 으 니 |
| Latvian | Lai pierâdîtu þçlsirdîbu mûsu tçviem un atcerçtos savu svçto derîbu. |
| Manx Gaelic | Dy chooilleeney yn vyghin va giallit da ny ayraghyn ain, as dy chooinaghtyn er e chonaant casherick: |
| Maori | Hei whakaputa i te mahi tohu ki o tatou tupuna, hei whakamahara ki tana kawenata tapu; |
| Norwegian | for å gjøre miskunn mot våre fedre og komme sin hellige pakt i hu, |
| Rumanian | Astfel Kwi aratq El kndurarea fayq de pqrinyii nowtri, wi Kwi aduce aminte de legqmkntul Lui cel sfknt, |
| Russian | УПФЧПТЙФ НЙМПУФШ У ПФГБНЙ ОБЫЙНЙ Й РПНСОЕФ УЧСФПК ЪБЧЕФ уЧПК, |
| Shuar | Yuska ii nemasriya tura iin nakitramainiajnia Nuyá uwemtikrampratniun Enentáimsamia nuna, yaunchu ni etserniurin pénker armia nuna ujakmiayi. "Winia ti penker chichamprun Tájana nuna yapajitsuk umirkan tuke Wáitnentratajrume" yaunchu ii uuntrin Tímiania nunasha ni etserniurin ujakarmiayi. Yaunchu nu ujakma Yamái iisha wainji. |
| Spanish | para hacer misericordia con nuestros padres y para acordarse de su santo pacto. |
| Swahili | Alisema atawahurumia wazee wetu, na kukumbuka agano lake takatifu. |
| Swedish | och så göra barmhärtighet med våra fäder och tänka på sitt heliga förbund, |
| Uma | Napopohiloi mpu'u-mi ahi' -na hi ntu'a-ta owi. Napadupa' -mi janci-na to moroli'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FATHERS": forefathers, godfathers, grandfathers, housefathers, stepfathers. (additional references) | |
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"FATHERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: athers, Earthers, Fachwerk, Fadhils, Fakhuri, fathis, fatters, Fethard, Fithers, Fitzhenry, flatcherism, oftahis, rathers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FATHERS" (pronounced fÄ"therz) |
| 4 | -Ä" th er z | bothers. |
| 3 | -th er z | bathers, bellwethers, brothers, dithers, druthers, feathers, forefathers, furthers, gathers, grandfathers, grandmothers, heathers, lathers, leathers, mothers, others, Smithers, smothers, southers, tethers, weathers, withers, zithers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hafters. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: afresh, afters, earths, faster, father, hafter, haters, hearts, strafe, trefah. | |
-2 letters: after, aster, earth, fares, fates, fears, feast, feats, fetas, frats, fresh, frets, haets, hafts, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, hefts, rafts, rates, rathe, rheas, safer, shaft, share, sheaf, shear, stare, tahrs, tares, tears, trash. | |
-3 letters: ares, arfs, arse, arts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: farthest, feathers. | |
+2 letters: gearshift, headfirst, ratfishes. | |
+3 letters: aftermaths, aftershave, aftershock, driveshaft, farsighted, fatherless, fatshedera, forgathers, frameshift, freshwater, gearshifts, godfathers, hardfisted, hereafters, starfishes, stepfather, threadfins. | |
+4 letters: afterbirths, aftershaves, aftershocks, airfreights, beachfronts, driveshafts, farthermost, fatherhoods, fatherlands, fatshederas, featherbeds, featheriest, featherings, featherless, flycatchers, forefathers, foregathers, frameshifts, freightages, freshwaters, housefather, hovercrafts, pathfinders, pinfeathers, softhearted, stepfathers, ultrafiches, wharfmaster. | |
+5 letters: farsightedly, farthingales, fatherliness, featheredges, featherheads, foolhardiest, furtherances, grandfathers, guitarfishes, headforemost, heterografts, housefathers, shatterproof, wharfmasters, wrathfulness. | |
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