father
noun [ C ] uk/ˈfɑː.ðər/ us/ˈfɑː.ðɚ/
(PARENT)
A1 父亲，爸爸
a male parent
My father took me to watch the football every Saturday. 我父亲每周六带我去看足球赛。
The children's father came to pick them up from school. 孩子们的父亲到学校来接他们。
[ as form of address ] formal or old-fashioned Please may I go, Father? 我可以走了吗，爸爸？
- More examples
- My father sends his greetings.
- She idolized her father.
- Tell your father I was asking after him.
- She's nearly as tall as her father now.
- She spoke of her sadness over her father's death.
(IN RELIGION)
(also Father, written abbreviation Fr)（尤指天主教或东正教的）神父
(the title of) a Christian priest, especially a Roman Catholic or Orthodox priest
Father O'Reilly 奥赖利神父
[ as form of address ] Are you giving a sermon, Father? 您要布道吗，神父？
(also Father)天父，上帝
a name for the Christian God
God the Father 上帝
Our Father, who art in heaven... 我们的天父…
Idiom
the father of somethingidiom …的创始人;…的奠基人
the man who began something or first made something important
Freud was the father of psychiatry. 弗洛伊德是精神病学之父。
father
verb [ T ] uk/ˈfɑː.ðər/ us/ˈfɑː.ðɚ/
成为…的父亲
to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant
He's fathered three children. 他是3个孩子的父亲。
Synonym: sire