Father/fa-ther/fä-thər
Noun: (In Christian belief) the first person of the Trinity; God
"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name." William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Noun: (often as a title or form of address) a priest In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I remember'd that youth could not last; I thought of the future, whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the past." From The Old Man's Comforts by Robert Southey, 1774 - 1843 Noun: a man in relation to his natural child or children "It is much easier to become a father than to be one." Kent Nerburn, 1946 - Noun: a man who gives care and protection to someone or something "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." George Herbert, 1593 - 1633 Noun: a male ancestor "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age." Genesis 15:15 (KJB) Noun: an important figure in the origin and early history of something "Doubt is the father of invention." Galileo Galilei, 1561 - 1642 Verb: be the father of; bring into the world "Millions of men are believed to carry a string of DNA bequeathed to them by Genghis Khan, the Mongolian conqueror who reputedly fathered hundreds of children." Verb: be the source or originator of "Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man." Robert Ardrey, 1908 - 1980 verb: treat with protective care "Fathered he is, and yet he's fatherless." From Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616