Betekenis van father In het Nederlands

• 0 a male parent:

  • My father took me to watch the football every Saturday.

  • The children's father came to pick them up from school.

  • [ as form of address ] formal or old-fashioned Please may I go, Father?

• 1 (the title of) a Christian priest, especially a Roman Catholic or Orthodox priest:

  • Father O'Reilly

  • [ as form of address ] Are you giving a sermon, Father?

  • God the Father

  • Our Father, who art in heaven...

• 2 to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant:

  • He's fathered three children.

• 3 a male parent:

  • My father retired seven years ago.

  • Freud was the father of psychoanalysis.

  • Father Randall

  • Are you giving a sermon, Father?

• 4 to become a father by causing a woman to produce a child:

  • to father twins