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Father is a related term of exemplar.


As a proper noun father

is (christianity) god, the father of creation.

As a noun exemplar is

exemplar.

father

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (generally human) male who begets a child.
  • * Bible, Proverbs x. 1
    • A wise son maketh a glad father .
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10
    • David slept with his fathers .
  • * Bible, Rom. iv. 16
    • Abraham, who is the father of us all
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bless you, good father friar!
  • A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
  • * Bible, Job xxix. 16
    • I was a father to the poor.
  • * Bible, Genesis xiv. 8
    • He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
  • The founder of a discipline or science.
  • A senator of Ancient Rome.

    • Synonyms

    * (parent) See also

    Antonyms

    * (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

    Hypernyms

    * (a male parent) parent

    Derived terms

    * Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfather

    Related terms

    * Father

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a father to; to sire.
  • * 1592 , v 4
    • Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
  • (figuratively) To give rise to.
  • * 1610 — ii 2
    • Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
  • To act as a father; to support and nurture.
  • * 1610 — iv 2
    • Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
  • To provide with a father.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?
  • To adopt as one's own.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.

    See also

    * beget * grandpa * pater * paternal *

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    exemplar

    English

    (wikipedia exemplar)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
  • A role model.
  • Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
  • A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
  • A well known usage of a scientific theory.
  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
  • A copy of a book or writing.
    • (Udall)
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exemplaire, and its source, (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exemplary.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
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