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How to pronounce “father”
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Pronunciation guide for father
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of father with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
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But a lot of what drives me is that my father was a Holocaust
- Definition summary
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
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How to pronounce father
Do the KIND Thing
But a lot of what drives me is that my father was a Holocaust
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “father”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- [Verb]
- To be a father to; to sire.
- (figuratively) To give rise to.
- To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- To provide with a father.
- To adopt as one's own.
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