HOUSEFATHERS Antonyms

• 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

• being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

• an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

• a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

• characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

• for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

• a married man; a woman's partner in marriage

• use cautiously and frugally

• a woman of the peerage in Britain

• a polite name for any woman

• a woman of refinement

• 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 person's partner in marriage

• an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest

• a person who is a member of a partnership

• provide with a partner

• act as a partner

• a person's partner in marriage

• an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

• a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man

• a human female employed to do housework

• women as a class