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Synonyms
fa·ther (fä́THər)

[Middle English fader, from Old English fæder.]

noun 

    1. A male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child.
    2. A man who adopts a child.
    3. A man who raises a child.
  2. A male parent of an animal.
  3. A male ancestor.
  4. A man who creates, originates, or founds something: Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
  5. An early form; a prototype.
  6. Christianity
    1. God.
    2. The first person of the Christian Trinity.
  7. An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
  8. A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
  9. One of the leading men, as of a city: the town fathers.
  10. A church father.
    1. A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
    2. Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.

verb: -thered, -ther·ing, -thers. 

transitive verb 

  1. To procreate (offspring) as the male parent.
  2. To act or serve as a father to (a child).
  3. To create, found, or originate.
  4. To acknowledge responsibility for.
    1. To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.
    2. To assign falsely or unjustly; foist.

intransitive verb 

To act or serve as a father.