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Definitions: Padre |
PadreNoun1. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic); `Padre' is frequently used in the military. 2. A chaplain in one of the military services. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Padre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Padre \Pa"dre\, noun; plural Spanish Portuguese Padres; Italian Padri. [Spanish expression, Pg., It., from the Latin expression pater father. See Father.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PADRE | English | Portable Automatic Data Recording Equipment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PadreSynonyms: military chaplain (n), sky pilot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Padre |
| Specialty definitions using "Padre": 78597. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Padre" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (father, governor, padre, sire), Portuguese (clergyman, clerical, divine, father, minister, pastor, priest, shaveling), Spanish (dad, f, father, parent, pater, Reverend, senior, sire). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have broken the fourth commandment, padre. (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) The good Lord, you know, padre, he want us to love our neighbor, no roast him, mmm? No roast him (The Pit and the Pendulum; writing credit: Dennis Paoli; Edgar Allan Poe) I killed my own father, padre. I got no trouble killing you. (Vampires; writing credit: Don Jakoby) Faith Padre, Faith. (Dead to Rights; writing credit: Flint Dille; Andre Emerson) I told the padre the truth man, I like it here. (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le farò da padre (1974) Del figlio e della Colt In nome del padre (1972) El Padre de la criatura (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shallow water bathymetry Sand waves off Padre Island Delineation possible because of widespread use of recording fathometers.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Filipino padre watching topographic work Crew off of FATHOMER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Padre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.52% of the time. "Padre" is used about 71 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) | 53.52% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 46.48% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Padre": South Padre Isla ♦ South Padre Island. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
dia del padre | 2,196 |
south padre | 1,258 |
padre island | 840 |
padre pio | 485 |
del día padre | 323 |
padre | 233 |
padre island texas | 147 |
island north padre | 136 |
amaro crimen del el padre | 113 |
padre island tx | 69 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Padre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | aalmoesenier (almoner, army, chaplain). (various references) | |
Albanian | atë (father, her, him, it, sire, that). (various references) | |
Czech | kaplan (chaplain, curate). (various references) | |
Dutch | veldprediker (army chaplain, chaplain), aalmoezenier (almoner, army chaplain, chaplain, distributor of alms). (various references) | |
Esperanto | militpastro (chaplain), armea pastro (army chaplain, chaplain). (various references) | |
French | aumônier. (various references) | |
German | pater (father). (various references) | |
Greek | ιερέασ (chaplain, minister), παπάσ (parson, priest, tongs), πατήρ (pater). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כומר (chaplain, magus, official, pastor, prebendary, presbyter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tábori lelkész. (various references) | |
Italian | prete (clergyman, parson, pastor, priest), padre (father, governor, male, sire), cappellano (chaplain). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パートタイ "業" (palm ball, par play, parliament, parlor, part time employee, partner, partnership, pearl, pearl gray, perfect, perfect game, performance, perlite, permanent, permanent pleats, permanent press, permanent wave, permission, purple). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パードレ . (various references) | |
Manx | saggyrt (churchman, clergyman, clerk holy orders; lesser black backed gull; grey gurnard, clerk; lesser black backed gull; grey gurnard, parson, priest, vicar), ayr (creeper, father, father figure, generator, mover). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adrepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fechar com cadeado. (various references) | |
Romanian | preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, father, incumbent, minister, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, rector, Reverend, rook, vicar), pãrinte (father, generator, parent), capelan (chaplain, hospitaller). (various references) | |
Russian | падре. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | duhovnik. (various references) | |
Spanish | capellán (chaplain, hospitaler, sky pilot). (various references) | |
Swedish | präst (clergyman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, jack-priest, minister, parson, pastor, priest, priestling, Reverend, vicar), militärpastor, fältpräst (army chaplain). (various references) | |
Turkish | ordu papazı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | католицький священик. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Padre": padres. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Padre": compadre. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Padre": compadres. (additional references) | |
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"Padre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adre, Jadro, Padarm, Padarn, Paddee, pade, Padee, pader, Padgem, Padget, padir, padme, padoe, padra, padrae, padrea, Padric, padry, padse, paeder, paire, pard, Pardee, parden, pardi, Pardue, pardy, pareb, pareo, pareu, parre, Pasdar, patra, patrem, Paudrat, pdr, Peadar, pede, peder, Pedoe, Pedrena, pendre, perd, perde, perdei, perdre, perdreau, phade, Phaedra, Phaure, Pidar, Pidra, Piedra, pitre, Pivra, podar, Prade, Praedrag, prder, puder, purda, Qadri, tadre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Padre" (pronounced pa"drā') |
| 3 | -d r ā' | Madre. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: drape, pared, raped. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aped, aper, dare, dear, pard, pare, pear, rape, read, reap. | |
-2 letters: ape, are, dap, ear, era, pad, par, pea, ped, per, rad, rap, red, rep. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-r" | |
+1 letter: carped, craped, damper, dapper, depart, diaper, draped, draper, drapes, drapey, harped, padder, padres, paired, pander, parade, pardee, pardie, parged, parked, parled, parred, parsed, parted, pedlar, petard, prated, prayed, ramped, rapped, rasped, reaped, redcap, repaid, repand, spader, spared, spread, warped. | |
+2 letters: adapter, adepter, adopter, aproned, aspired, bedrape, capered, cramped, crapped, dampers, departs, deprave, despair, diapers, diptera, drapers, drapery, eardrop, ephedra, frapped, graphed, grasped, jeopard, leopard, operand, padders, paddler, padrone, panders, pandore, papered, paraded, parader, parades, parched, pardine, pardner, paroled, parried, partied, pearled, pedlars, pedlary, peracid, peridia, pervade, petards, phrased, pirated, pleader, praised, pranced, pranged, pranked, prawned, preaged, predate, predawn, predial, prefade, premade, prepaid, ralphed, raphide, rapider, readapt, readopt, redcaps, repaved, replead, respade, retaped, scarped, scraped, sharped, spaders, sparged, sparked, sparred, speared, sprayed, spreads, tapered, tramped, trapped, undrape, updater, upgrade, uprated, vapored, wrapped. | |
+3 letters: adapters, adopters, airspeed, appeared, apprised, apprized, approved, aspersed, bediaper, bedraped, bedrapes, bespread, biparted, captured, carpeted, compadre, compared, copyread, dampener, dapperer, dapperly, departed, departee, depraved, depraver, depraves, deprival, depurate, despairs, diapered, diaspore, didapper, dipteral, dipteran, dispread, dognaper, dragrope, drapable, drophead, eardrops, endocarp, endpaper, ephedras, epidural, escarped, eupatrid, expander, expandor, feldspar, firedamp, grappled, hampered, impaired, imparked, imparted, jeopards, jeopardy, kidnaper, lappered, larruped, leopards, operands, operated, orphaned, overpaid, paddlers, padrones, paltered, pampered, pandered, panderer, pandores, panfried, paraders, paradise, parceled, pardners, pardoned, pardoner, parented, pargeted, parlayed, parleyed, parodied, parodies, parridge, parroted, parslied, pastored, pastured, pattered, paupered, paygrade, pedalfer, pedalier, pedantry, pederast, pegboard, pendular, peracids, peridial, persuade, pervaded, pervader, pervades, picrated, pillared, pleaders, poleward, pomander, portaged, portaled, poularde, praedial, prattled, preached, preacted, preadapt, preadmit, preadopt, preadult, prearmed, preaudit, prebaked, predated, predates, predator, predawns, prefaced, prefaded, prefades, prepared, presaged, presidia, pretaped, probated, profaned, prograde, pronated, prorated, pyoderma, rampaged, rapeseed, raphides, rapidest, rapiered, rappeled, raptured, readapts, readopts, recapped, relapsed, remapped, repacked, repaired, repandly, reparked, repassed, repasted, repealed, repeated, replaced, replated, replayed, repleads, reshaped, respaced, respaded, respades, respread, revamped, rhapsode, scarphed, scorepad, scrapped, spandrel, sparkled, spiraled, spraddle, sprained, sprawled, spreader, strapped, superadd, superbad, tampered, tapadera, tapadero, teardrop, tetrapod, threaped, traipsed, trampled, trapesed, tripedal, underlap, underpay, undraped, undrapes, unpaired, unparted, unrepaid, unwarped, updarted, updaters, upgraded, upgrades, uplander, upraised, upreared, upsoared, upstared, vapoured. | |
+4 letters: airspeeds, ampersand, apartheid, aperiodic, aphorised, aphorized, appareled, applauder, appraised, apprehend, appressed, asperated, aspirated, atrophied, barhopped, bediapers, bedraping, bedspread, bespreads, bewrapped, calipered, caprioled, carpooled, chaptered, clepsydra, compadres, comparted, copyreads, dampeners, dapperest, davenport, deathtrap, deepwater, departees, departing, departure, depravers, depraving, depravity, deprecate, depredate, deprivals, deprogram, depurated, depurates, despaired, despairer, desperado, desperate, diapering, diaspores, didappers, dipterans, disappear, disparage, disparate, disparted, dispersal, dispraise, dispreads, disrepair, dognapers, dognapper, doorplate, dragropes, drainpipe, drapeable, draperies, drawplate, dropheads, droppable, eavesdrop, endocarps, endpapers, entrapped, enwrapped, epicardia, epidermal, eupatrids, expanders, expandors, feldspars, firedamps, godparent, handpress, harpooned, harumphed, hyperacid, hyperarid, ideograph, impearled, inwrapped, jeoparded, kidnapers, kidnapper, leporidae, madrepore, misparsed, misparted, nephridia, outprayed, outspread, overpedal, overplaid, pachyderm, palavered, paloverde, panderers, pandering, pantdress, paradises, paradores, paradoses, paradoxes, paragoned, paralysed, paralyzed, paramedic, parapeted, parboiled, parcelled, pardoners, pargetted, parqueted, parricide, parridges, parsleyed, partnered, partridge, patricide, patrolled, patterned, paygrades, pearlized, pedalfers, pedaliers, pederasts, pederasty, pediatric, pedlaries, pegboards, permeated, perorated, persuaded, persuader, persuades, pertained, pervaders, pervading, philander, picadores, pinafored, placarded, plastered, pleasured, polarised, polarized, pollarded, polyhedra, pomanders, ponderosa, poniarded, portrayed, poulardes, practiced, practised, praesidia, preadapts, preadmits, preadopts, preaudits, prebendal, predacity, predating, predation, predators, predatory, predicate, prefabbed, prefading, prefeudal, preheated, preordain, prepacked, prepasted, preplaced, preshaped, presidial, presoaked, pretasted, prevailed, prewarmed, prewarned, prewashed, printhead, programed, prolapsed, promenade, proofread, purchased, pyodermas, pyramided, quadruped, quadruple, ramparted, rapeseeds, rapidness, rappelled, readapted, readopted, reapplied, reclasped, redisplay, repainted, repaneled, repapered, repatched, rephrased, replanned, replanted, repleaded, repleader, reprimand, repudiate, resampled, respading, resprayed, respreads, restamped, rewrapped, rhapsodes, riprapped, sandpaper, sandpiper, scampered, scarpered, scorepads, separated, sharpened, spaceward, spadework, spandrels, spattered, spearhead, spermatid, spikenard, spiralled, spraddled, spraddles, sprattled, spreaders, spreading, stampeder, superadds, superroad, surpassed, tapaderas, tapaderos, teardrops, tetrapods, therapsid, trapanned, trapezoid, trepanned, trepidant, underlaps, underpaid, underpart, underpass, underpays, underplay, unsprayed, unwrapped, upbraided, upbraider, uphoarded, uplanders, upreached, upstarted, vaporised, vaporized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 64 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -.. .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01100100 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a d r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0064 0072 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067708471 |
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