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
grow out of (something)
to abandon something as one matures or becomes older
The little boy is beginning to grow out of his baby chair.
