Definitionen
1.NounA male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.)."My father was a strong influence on me."
2.NounA male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children."My friend Tony just became a father."
3.NounA male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
4.NounA term of respectful address for an elderly man."Come, father; you can sit here."
5.NounA term of respectful address for a priest.
6.NounA person who plays the role of a father in some way."My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.; The child is father to the man."
7.NounA pioneering figure in a particular field."Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics."
8.NounSomething that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
9.NounSomething inanimate that begets.
10.NounA member of a church council.
11.NounThe archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
12.VerbTo be a father to; to sire.
13.VerbTo give rise to.
14.VerbTo act as a father; to support and nurture.
15.VerbTo provide with a father.
16.VerbTo adopt as one's own.