ABRAHAM Synonyms
There are 4 hypernyms of the word abraham. (close relations)
Definition of ABRAHAM
Best Alternative Words for ABRAHAM
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| father | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) • `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military • the founder of a family • (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization • a person who founds or establishes some institution • the head of an organized crime family verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
| forefather | nounn | |||||||
noun • the founder of a family • person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | ||||||||
| paterfamilias | nounn | |||||||
noun • the male head of family or tribe | ||||||||
| patriarch | nounn | |||||||
noun • title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) • the male head of family or tribe • any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race • a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | ||||||||
| ibrahim | nounn | |||||||
noun • the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son | ||||||||
