POPPAS Synonyms

• an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

• 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 Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies, with capital Harrisburg

• an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

• a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead

• an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas

• a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter

• an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

• 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

• a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority

• the founder of a family

• male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a man who is very old

• a familiar term of address for a man

• an informal term for your father

• aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe

• (slang) boss