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Usage of ' Father ' in Some Choicest Literature...
The TempestWilliam ShakespeareAriel (singing): Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
King Richard IIIWilliam ShakespeareGood grandam, tell us, is our father dead
EmmaJane AustenThe unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father.
Tangled TaleLewis CarrollHis father courteously tried to make amends for his nonchalance
Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas AdamsI'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy, insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on."
Les MiserablesVictor HugoAn old man, named Father Fauchelevent, had fallen under his cart, his horse being thrown down
Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames JoyceHis mother had a nicer smell than his father.
Grapes of WrathJohn SteinbeckHis father opened the barn and passed out two picks and three shovels
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan SwiftWhereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs
WaldenHenry David ThoreauThe consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably
Usage Frequency of the word" Father "
"Father" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.57% of the time. "Father" is used about 23,625 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 per100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)
92.57%
21,869
409
Noun (proper)
7.4%
1,747
4,816
Lexical Verb (base form)
0.02%
5
157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)
0.02%
4
175,879
Total
100.00%
23,625
N/A

Expressions : Father

Expressions using "father": Adoptive father • Apostolic father • authority of father • be the spit of smb.'s father • church Father • city father • doting father • father Brown • father christmas • father confessor • father day • father figure • Father in God • father in law • Father longlegs • Father of lies • Father of the bar • Father of the Faithful • father of the family • Father of the house • father on • father smth. on smb. • father superior • father surrogate • father time • father upon • Foster father • founding father • God the Father Son and Holy Ghost • grand father • he is his father all over • he is the picture of his father • heavy father • heir of the part of the father • holy father • like father • like father like son • most Reverend Father in God • mother and father • my father • natural father • our Father • our heavenly father • ours father • penny father • pilgrim father • putative father • reputed father • reverend father • shrift father • spiritual father • step father • take after one's father • the Father of Radio • The Holy Father • the wish the father to the thought • To father on • to father upon • widowed father • your father.


Hyphenated Usage
Beginning with "father": father-and-son, Father-Child Relations, father-coach, father-complex, father-confessor, father-daughter, father-figure, father-figures, Father-God, father-husband, father-husbands, Father-in-common-law, Father-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law, Father-in-law-to-be, father-in-science, father-i-want-to-kill-you, father-just, father-killer, father-king, Father-lasher, father-like, father-love, father-more, father-mother, father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal, father-my, father-never, father-of, father-of-five, father-of-four, father-of-one, father-of-seven, father-of-six, father-of-three, father-of-two, father-protest, father-religion, father-replacements, father-role, father-son, father-substitute, father-surrogates, Father-to-be, father-to-son.
Ending with "father": grand-father, step-father.
Containing "father": Ex-father-in-law, mother-father-child.
Frequency of theInternet Keyword "Father"
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The Father Dictionaryfa�thern.
A man who begets or raises or nurtures a child.
A male parent of an animal.
A male ancestor.
A man who creates, originates, or founds something: Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
An early form; a prototype.
Father Christianity.
God.
The first person of the Christian Trinity.
An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
One of the leading men, as of a city: the town fathers.
or Father A church father.
(Abbr. Fr.)
A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
v., -thered, -ther�ing, -thers.
v.tr.
To procreate (offspring) as the male parent.
To act or serve as a father to (a child).
To create, found, or originate.
To acknowledge responsibility for.
(a) To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.(b) To assign falsely or unjustly; foist.
v.intr.
To act or serve as a father.
[Middle English fader, from Old English f�der.]
The noun father has 4 meanings:
Meaning #1: a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)Synonyms: male parent, begetterAntonym: mother (meaning #1)
Meaning #2: the founder of a familySynonyms: forefather, sire
Meaning #3: a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
Meaning #4: a person who founds or establishes some institutionSynonyms: founder, beginner, founding father
The verb father has one meaning:
Meaning #1: make childrenSynonyms: beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

The Father Thesaurus
father
noun
1. A male parent: sire. Informal dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy2, pop2. Slang old man. See kin.2. A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, forebear, forefather, foremother, mother, parent, progenitor. Archaic predecessor. See kin, precede/follow.3. One that creates, founds, or originates: architect, author, creator, entrepreneur, founder2, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch. See start/end.4. A first form from which varieties arise or imitations are made: archetype, master, original, protoplast, prototype. See start/end.
verb
1. To be the biological father of: beget, breed, get, procreate, sire. See kin.2. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idioms: givebirthriseto. See make/unmake.
Synonyms : FatherSynonyms: begetter (n), beginner (n), forefather (n), founder (n), founding father (n), male parent (n), beget (v), bring forth (v), engender (v), generate (v), get (v), mother (v), sire (v). (additional references)Antonym: mother (n).

Synonyms withinContext : Father
Age
Seniority, eldership; elders; (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.
Attribution
Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.
Clergy
Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.
Credulity
Phrase: the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce; omne ignotum pro magnifico.
Deity
The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father Son and Holy Ghost.
God the Father; The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver.
Desire
Phrase: the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas; hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus.
Dissimilarity
Phrase: diis aliter visum; " no more like my father than I to Hercules".
Hope
Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis.
Misjudgment
Phrase: nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful thinking; unshakable conviction; "my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts".
Paternity
Parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap.
Posterity
Phrase: "the child is father of the man"; "the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree", "like father, like son".
Similarity
Phrase: et sic de similibus; tel maitre tel valet; tel pere tel fils; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block.
The Drama
Company; first tragedian, prima donna, protagonist; jeune premier; debutant, debutante; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso, heavy father, ingenue, jeune veuve.
Time
Glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.
The Antonyms of Father
fathernoun
Definition: founder, inventorAntonyms: disciple, follower
noun
Definition: male person who begets children; forefatherAntonyms: mother
verb
Definition: create; generateAntonyms: mother