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Definition of father : 1. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor ( called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; - in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
3. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
4. A senator of ancient Rome.
5. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
6. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
7. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
10. To make one's self the father of; to beget.
11. To provide with a father.
12. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for ( a statement, policy, etc.).

Synonyms:

let, Providence, archetype, capture, generator, spawn, the Archbishop of Canterbury, pappy, prototype, daddy, draw, aim, forbear, conception, overprotect, pose, grandfather, administrator, papa, fertilise, cause, disciple, Yahweh, fertilize, assisted reproduction, pay off, render, predecessor, pa, buzz off, don, entrepreneur, sponsor, Jehovah, bishopric, yield, get, Godhead, bring forth, birth parent, old man, sustain, birth mother, stupefy, mystify, obtain, Eternal, drive, go, Supreme Being, suffer, apostolic, Almighty, fathers, vex, establisher, artificial insemination, beat, Everlasting, tyro, deadbeat dad, give, have, begetter, precede, male parent, arrest, patriarch, preceptor, amaze, original, stick, antecedent, progenitor, conceive, arrive, bewilder, hermit, Him, find, start out, set out, acquire, catch, stimulate, induce, protoplast, beginner, dean, descent, martyr, parson, bugger off, military chaplain, fetch, Lord, foremother, branch, Father-God, Padre, the Holy Ghost, flummox, prophet, inaugurator, sky pilot, tiro, baffle, publisher, primogenitor, fix, family tree, pater, fuss, gravel, get down, master, Divinity, initiate, supporter, He, pay back, experience, forebearer, initiator, archbishopric, become, receive, bring, birth father, His, contract, grow, perplex, scram, commentator, ancestry, apostle, pop, empty nester, beget, return, breed, incur, founding father, convey, laminitis, Allah, commence, puzzle, elder, come, dad, church father, ascendant, antecedents, God, set about, nonplus, start, descendant, fertilization, dumbfound, get under one's skin, begin, Christ, take, custodial parent, instituter

found, engender, procreate

consanguinity, uncle, ancestor, brotherhood, relation, heredity, kinship, family, nephew, flesh, niece, clan, kin, cousin, aunt, lineage, kinfolk, mother, motherhood, paternity, maternity, fatherhood, relative, blood, fraternity, sisterhood

novice, pilgrim, abbess, pope, missionary, reverend, cleric, chaplain, archdeacon, ecclesiastic, nun, curate, friar, minister, prioress, priest, evangelist, canon, vicar, sister, clergyman, abbot, rector, archbishop, bishop, archpriest, prior, monk, prelate, cardinal, canoness, pastor, brother, preacher

procreator, founder, responsibility, sire, forefather, parent, forebear, engenderer

impresario, inventor, architect, composer, executrix, author, fabricator, executor, creator, manufacturer, director, originator, producer, maker

generate, invent, build, create, fabricate, construct, form, execute, cultivate, manufacture, develop, originate, produce, make

Usage examples:

• " Let me go to me father. - "Gallegher and Other Stories", Richard Harding Davis.
• I knew your father, sir! - "Together", Robert Herrick (1868-1938).
• He replied that his father had not sent for him. - "The Truants", A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason.