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father's day |
father-figure |
father-god |
father-in-law |
father-lasher |
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fatherhood has 4 senses
- fatherhood(n = noun.linkdef) paternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the father; Array is a kind of family relationship, kinship, relationship
- fatherhood(n = noun.person) father, father-god - God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" is a kind of hypostasis, hypostasis of christ
- fatherhood(n = noun.act) Array - the status of a religious leader; Array is a kind of berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot
- fatherhood(n = noun.act) Array - the status of a father; Array is a kind of berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot
CIDE DICTIONARY
fatherhood, n.
The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fatherhood
affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternalness, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of bloodROGET THESAURUS
fatherhood
Paternity
N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.
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