NURTURERS Synonyms

• a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person)

• an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily

• 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

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a person who cares for persons or property

• a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

• a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar

• a term of address for an elderly woman

• a term of address for a mother superior

• a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation

• care for like a mother

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

• look after a child until it is an adult

• a person who cares for persons or property

• someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

• someone who provides the means for subsistence

• someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

• the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

• an attendant on an airplane

• a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

• one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• someone who supports or champions something

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

• a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise

• someone who upholds or maintains