Father

1. (n) A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.). 2. (n) A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children. 3. (n) A person who plays the role of a father in some way. 4. (n) A term of respectful address for an elderly man. 5. (n) A term of respectful address for a priest. 6. (n) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. 7. (n) A pioneering figure in a particular field. 8. (n) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. 9. (v) To be a father to; to sire. 10. (v) To act as a father; to support and nurture. 11. (v) To provide with a father. 12. (v) To adopt as one's own. 13. (v) (figuratively) To give rise to. 14. (n) (Christianity) A member of a church council. 15. (n) (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather. 16. (n) Something inanimate that begets. 17. (n) One's father. 18. (n) (Christianity) God, the father of Creation. 19. (n) (Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son. 20. (n) (Christianity) A title given to priests. 21. (n) (Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ. 22. (n) A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost. 23. (n) (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master. 24. (n) (historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.