father
verb/ˈfɑːðə(r)/
/ˈfɑːðər/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they father | /ˈfɑːðə(r)/ /ˈfɑːðər/ |
| he / she / it fathers | /ˈfɑːðəz/ /ˈfɑːðərz/ |
| past simple fathered | /ˈfɑːðəd/ /ˈfɑːðərd/ |
| past participle fathered | /ˈfɑːðəd/ /ˈfɑːðərd/ |
| -ing form fathering | /ˈfɑːðərɪŋ/ /ˈfɑːðərɪŋ/ |
- father somebody to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant
- He claims to have fathered over 20 children.
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- father something to create new ideas or a new way of doing something
Word OriginOld English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr.
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