English words for 'fatherly dedication'
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verb
noun
- the founder of a family
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
prefix
adj
- characteristic of a father
- Acting as a father.
- related on the father's side
- Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
- belonging to or inherited from one's father
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- Received or inherited from one's father.
- Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- the state of being a father
- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- Parental descent from a father.
- the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
- the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
- (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- (figuratively) Authorship.
adj
noun
name
noun
- (Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
- A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
- (historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.
- (Christianity) A title given to priests.
- (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
- ‘Father’ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); ‘Padre’ is frequently used in the military
noun
- the founder of a family
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
verb
noun
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
- The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
- the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
noun
- someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild
- any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
- A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
- (crime) A mafia leader.
- (Christianity) A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
- (figurative) Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (informal) Father.
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
noun
- Parentage.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (Geordie) father
- In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.
- The vowel designated by this mark.
noun
- (less common) A father.
- A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
- Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather.
- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
noun
noun
noun
- the state of being a father
- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- Parental descent from a father.
- the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
- the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
- (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- (figuratively) Authorship.
verb
noun
- the founder of a family
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
noun
- the founder of a family
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
verb
noun
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
- The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
- the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
noun
- someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild
- any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
- A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
- (crime) A mafia leader.
- (Christianity) A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
- (figurative) Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (informal) Father.
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
noun
- Parentage.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (Geordie) father
- In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.
- The vowel designated by this mark.
noun
- (less common) A father.
- A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
- Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather.
- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
noun
verb
noun
- the founder of a family
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
adj
- characteristic of a father
- Acting as a father.
- related on the father's side
- Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
- belonging to or inherited from one's father
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- Received or inherited from one's father.
- Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.