On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Father. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as mother or priest and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
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Father meaning
- 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 male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
Synonyms of Father
Using Father
- The main meaning on this page is: 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 male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children. | A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Useful related words include: mother, sire, priest, padre.
- In the example corpus, father often appears in combinations such as: his father, the father, father and.
Example sentences (20)
Father's Day is fast approaching in the UK and falls in June, a couple of months after Mother's Day, the annual holiday is a chance to celebrate father's and father figures.
This sentiment echoes the deep-rooted belief of his late father: former senator Rene Cayetano, in the transformative power of education, as seen in the collaborative efforts between father and son in establishing the high school named after his father.
Despite being a personality based on Elliot’s late father, Mr. Robot doesn't seem to have a whole lot in common with Elliot’s father, at least when compared to what little we do know about the real version of his father.
Father Otto noted that it would take place just 11 days after the centenary of Archbishop Sheen’s ordination at St. Mary’s Cathedral, where he and Father Cesarek and Father Pica were also ordained.
Regardless of what your father might have done to you in the past, your father remains your father.
Todoroki sees this as a chance to conquer the phantom of his father by beating the pupil of his father's greatest rival using his father's quirk at all.
So was his father and his father’s father.
The monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament was carried under a canopy by priests and a deacon of the parish – Father Richter, Father Brian Feller, parochial vicar; Father Shinoj Jose, parochial vicar and Deacon David Prenger.
The three graduates who were ordained by the new Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican Church, Right Reverend Felix Kofi Odei Annancy were Rev. Father Bismark Osafo Nyantekyi, Rev. Father Justice Nketia and Rev. Father Paa Kwesi Amissah Bentil.
After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien, whom his father had once called his "chief critic and collaborator", embarked on organizing the masses of his father's unpublished writings, some of them written on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier.
Arius emphasized the supremacy and uniqueness of God the Father, meaning that the Father alone is almighty and infinite, and that therefore the Father's divinity must be greater than the Son's.
As a child, he was not told anything about his father, and he baited his mother that unless she gave him some information about his biological father, in his writing he would invent the father and the circumstances of how she got pregnant.
Barnouin and Yu 75–76 After finding that his father, Zhou Shaogang, was unable to support himself, Zhou looked after his father in Chongqing until his father's death in 1942.
Father descendant names can be chained, meaning that an individual can have the name of their father, followed by their paternal grandfather, followed by the father of that grandfather, to indicate a patrilineal lineage.
Father's Day typically involves spending time with one's father or the father figures in one's life.
For example, the name Ahmed Mohamed Ali Farah means "Ahmed son of Mohamed son of Ali son of Farah"; a father and son or daughter never share the same surname as the naming goes father after father.
For the Father is neither made nor begotten; the Son is not made but is begotten from the Father; the Holy Spirit is neither made nor begotten but proceeds from the Father and the Son ( filioque ).
Matt. 19: 6. Eternal generation and procession further Trinitarianism affirms that the Son is "begotten" (or "generated") of the Father and that the Spirit "proceeds" from the Father, but the Father is "neither begotten nor proceeds".
Suggestions made to resolve the difficulty — e.g. that father and son each bore the same double name, or that Abiathar officiated during his father's lifetime and in his father's stead—have been supported by great names, but have not been fully accepted.
The Father is eternal and not begotten and does not proceed from any, the Son is eternal and begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit is eternal and proceeds from the Father.
Common combinations with father
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his father 98×
- the father 44×
- father and 36×
- her father 30×
- father of 21×
- father was 19×
- my father 19×
- father in 18×
- and father 15×
- father to 12×