名词

1.父亲

2.祖先，先辈

3.创始人，奠基人

4. 天父；上帝

5.（尤指天主教和东正教的）神父

及物动词：

1.成为父亲

2.创立（新思想）；创造，发明（新方法）

词形变化

时态fathered，fathering，fathers

英语解释

a person who founds or establishes some institution

make children

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

the head of an organized crime family

the founder of a family

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

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

(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