(Christianity) God, the father of Creation.
(Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
One's father.
(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.
(Christianity) A title given to priests.
(Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
(historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A pioneering figure in a particular field.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
Something inanimate that begets.
(Christianity) A member of a church council.
(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
To be a father to; to sire.
(figurative) To give rise to.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one's own.