Fatherless: alternatives and connections

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

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.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child…

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…