father (6 letters)
father
12
- Length
- 6 letters
- Scrabble score
- 12 points
- Frequency
- Common
- Pronunciation
- FAHTH-ur
What it means
- verb — make (offspring) by reproduction
- noun — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- noun — the founder of a family
- noun — `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
- noun — (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
- noun — a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- noun — God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
- noun — a person who founds or establishes some institution
- noun — the head of an organized crime family