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Father

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

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Ancestor 76% connected

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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Antecedent 76% connected

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

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Ascendant 76% connected

Ascent; height; elevation.

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Ascendent 76% connected

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

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Chief 76% connected

The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the…

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Conceiver 76% connected

One who conceives.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Leader 76% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Originator 76% connected

One who originates.

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Parent 76% connected

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

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Priest 76% connected

A presbyter elder; a minister

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Root 76% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Theologian 76% connected

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

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Theologist 76% connected

A theologian.

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Theologizer 76% connected

One who theologizes; a theologian.

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Title 76% connected

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

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Colonizer 76% connected

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

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Dad 76% connected

Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

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Daddy 76% connected

Diminutive of Dad.

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Father-in-law 76% connected

The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

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Foundress 76% connected

A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

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Pa 76% connected

A shortened form of Papa.

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Papa 76% connected

A child's word for father.

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Patriarch 76% connected

The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient his…

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Pop 76% connected

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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Beget 74% connected

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

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Beget 74% connected

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

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Synonym 11

Beget 92% connected

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

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Begetter 92% connected

One who begets; a father.

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Beginner 92% connected

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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Don 92% connected

Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.

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Engender 92% connected

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

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Forefather 92% connected

One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

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Founder 92% connected

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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Generate 92% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Get 92% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Mother 92% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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Sire 92% connected

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.

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