father; male parent; begetter
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
"his father was born in Atlanta"
Antonym:
mother; female parent
mother; female parent
Type of:
parent
Types:
dad; dada; daddy; pa; papa; pappa; pop
father-in-law
old man
pater
WordNet Lexical Database
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