📒 a male parent of a child or an animal; a person who is acting as the father to a child
📒 a person’s ancestors (= people who are related to you who lived in the past)
📒 the first man to introduce a new way of thinking about something or of doing something
📒 used by Christians to refer to God
📒 the title of a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
📒 from one generation of a family to the next
📒 used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father
📒 very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)
📒 we believe a thing because we want it to be true