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Definition: Fatherhood |
FatherhoodNoun1. The kinship relation between an offspring and the father. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fatherhood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: FatherhoodSynonym: paternity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Paternity | Parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fatherhood |
| English words defined with "fatherhood": fatherlike, fatherly, Fathership ♦ Without doors. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fatherhood": Preconception Care. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, that's fatherhood. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fatherhood (1915) The Fatherhood of Buck McGee (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Bill Cosby | Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is the soap-on-the-rope. |
Calvin Coolidge | Our doctrine of equality, liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, or dominion over the world, as is pretended: 2. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Slovenia | Under the Constitution, marriage is based on the equality of both spouses, and the Constitution stipulates that the State shall protect the family, motherhood, and fatherhood. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Clearly, demanding and supporting responsible fatherhood is critical to lifting all children out of poverty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Fatherhood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fatherhood" is used about 46 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) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "fatherhood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | atësi (parentage, paternity). (various references) | |
Arabic | الأبوة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бащинство (parentage, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Czech | otcovství (paternity). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermoeden van vaderschap (putative fatherhood). (various references) | |
Finnish | isyys (paternity). (various references) | |
French | paternité. (various references) | |
German | vaterschaft (paternity). (various references) | |
Greek | πατρότητα (paternity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אבות (parents, patriarchs, sages), אב"ות (fatherliness, parentage, paternity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | apaság (parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keayahan (parental). (various references) | |
Italian | paternit (authorship, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Manx | ayraght (paternity). (various references) | |
Norwegian | farskap. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atherhoodfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paternidade (parentage, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Romanian | paternitate (authorship, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Russian | отцовство (parentage, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | očinstvo (filiation, paternalism, paternity). (various references) | |
Spanish | paternidad (parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Swedish | faderskap (paternity). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเป็นพ่อ. (various references) | |
Turkish | babalık (parenthood, paternity, pop, pops), baba olma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | батьківство (parentage, parenthood, paternity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cương vị l m cha (fathership), cương vị l m bố (fathership). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fatherhood": fatherhoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fatherhood" (pronounced fÄ"therhuh'd) |
| 5 | -th er h uh' d | brotherhood, motherhood. |
| 4 | -er h uh' d | neighborhood. |
| 3 | -h uh' d | adulthood, babyhood, boyhood, childhood, knighthood, likelihood, livelihood, falsehood, girlhood, manhood, nationhood, parenthood, sainthood, statehood, victimhood, womanhood. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-h-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: hoorahed. | |
-3 letters: frothed, hothead. | |
-4 letters: dafter, dearth, dehort, dhoora, father, fedora, foetor, footed, footer, foredo, hafted, hafter, hatred, hearth, hoofed, hoofer, hoorah, hooted, hooter, hotrod, orated, rafted, roadeo, roofed, rooted, thread, trefah. | |
-5 letters: adore, afoot, afore, after, dater, death, defat, derat, doeth, doter, draft, earth, fader, fared, fated, fetor, fordo, forte, forth, froth, hared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-h-h-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fatherhoods. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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