PROGENITORS Synonyms

• 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 from whom you are descended

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• a female ancestor

• one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• an ancestor in the direct line

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• an ancestor in the direct line