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Father
/ˈfɑːðə/
A male parent or a person acting as a male parent.
Synonyms:
dad
papa
pop
Antonyms:
mother
matriarch
Examples:
My
father
is kind.
Her
father
cooked dinner yesterday.
Etymology:
From Old English
fæder
, from Proto-Germanic
*fadēr
, from Proto-Indo-European
*ph₂tḗr
.
Usage Statistics:
320 mentions per 1 million words
Very Often
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