father

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• “his father was born in Atlanta”

the founder of a family

• “keep the faith of our forefathers”

`Father'' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church)

• “Padre”

(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

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• “the tennis fathers ruled in her favor”
• “the city fathers endorsed the proposal”

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• “hear our prayers, Heavenly Father”

a person who founds or establishes some institution

• “George Washington is the father of his country”

the head of an organized crime family

make children

• “Abraham begot Isaac”
• “Men often father children but don”