n.
1.a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
2.the founder of a family
3.`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church)
4.(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine
5.a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
6.God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
7.a person who founds or establishes some institution
8.the head of an organized crime family father v.
1.make children
Idiom of the Day
layaway plan
a plan in which someone pays part of some money that is owed and then pays the rest later and the store keeps the item until the full price has been paid
I decided to buy the television set on the department store`s layaway plan.