名詞 father:

1. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
   同義詞：male parent, begetter
2. the founder of a family
   同義詞：forefather, sire
3. `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
   同義詞：Padre
4. (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
   同義詞：Church Father, Father of the Church
5. a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
6. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
   同義詞：Father-God, Fatherhood
7. a person who founds or establishes some institution
   同義詞：founder, beginner, founding father
8. the head of an organized crime family
   同義詞：don

動詞 father:

1. make children
   同義詞：beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

1. My father and mother went for a walk.
   爸爸媽媽去散步了。
2. His father is a customs officer.
   他父親是一位海關官員。
3. Father sits in the same chair every evening.
   父親每晚都坐在同一張椅子上，
4. I have loved her like a father should.
   我愛她就像愛自己的女兒一樣。

fa.ther

n.（名詞）
A man who begets or raises or nurtures a child.
父親：生育、撫養(yǎng)或教養(yǎng)孩子的人
A male parent of an animal.
父：動物的雄性生養(yǎng)者
A male ancestor.
男性祖先
A man who creates, originates, or founds something:
創(chuàng)立者：創(chuàng)始、發(fā)明或建立某事物的人：
例句：
Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
喬叟被看作是英國詩歌之父

An early form; a prototype.
原形：早期的形式；原形
Father
Father
God.
神，上帝
The first person of the Christian Trinity.
基督：基督教第一人
An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
前輩，長者：一個年長并受尊敬的人。用作敬稱
A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
元老：古羅馬議會的一員
One of the leading men, as of a city:
市長：城市的領導者：
例句：
the town fathers.
鎮(zhèn)長

Or Father A church father.
或 Father 教父
Abbr. Fr.
縮寫 Fr.
A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
神父：羅馬天主教或盎格魯教的牧師或神父
Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman`s name.
神職人員：用作帶或不帶牧師姓名時的一種頭銜和稱呼
v.（動詞）
fa.thered,fa.ther.ing,fa.thers
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To procreate (offspring) as the male parent.
作為父親生養(yǎng)（后代）
Usage Problem To act or serve as a father to (a child).
【用法疑難】 作為父親對待（孩子）
To create, found, or originate.
創(chuàng)造，成立，發(fā)明
To acknowledge responsibility for.
確定責任：對…承認責任

To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.
認為是…的父親、創(chuàng)造或起源
To assign falsely or unjustly; foist.
錯誤地或不公平地繼承；冒稱
v.intr.Usage Problem （不及物動詞）【用法疑難】
To act or serve as a father.
保護：像父親一樣對待

來源：
Middle English fader
中古英語 fader
from Old English fôder * see p…ter-
源自 古英語 fôder *參見 p…ter-

The verbfather has come to be used widely to mean specifically to .perform the child-rearing functions of a father,.particularly in the gerundfathering, as inFathering a step-child takes considerable tact and understanding. This usage reflects the same social changes that have led to the analogous use of the verbparent and has met with the same kinds of critical resistance.In the most recent surveythe example cited was rejected by '4 percent of the Usage Panel.A problem particular to this use offather is that it may occasion opportunities for humorous misconstruction,since it is in direct competition with the older sense of .beget.. ·It is notablethat the analogous use ofmother as a verb meaning specifically .to perform the child-rearing functions of a mother. is encountered only rarely.It is likely that the discrepancy in the frequency of these new uses ofmother and father reflects the fact that recent writers on family life have tended to place more emphasis on a reconceptualization of the traditional paternal role in child-rearing.See Usage Note at parent
動詞father 被廣泛應用， 尤指.履行一個父親養(yǎng)育孩子的職責.，特別是動名詞fathering， 如在撫育養(yǎng)子得花費巨大的心智和理解 。 這種用法反應了引起動詞parent 相似用法的同樣社會變化， 并遭到了同樣的批評反對。在最近的調(diào)查中，引用的例子被用法專題使用小組'4%的成員反對。特別對于father 這種用法的一個問題是， 它可能會引起幽默的誤解，因為它直接與舊觀念的.生育.沖突。值得注意的是，mother 作為動詞的相似用法意思特指.履行一個母親生養(yǎng)孩子的職責.， 這種用法很少見。看起來mother 和 father 這些新用法出現(xiàn)頻率的不一致反映了一個事實， 那就是近期家庭生活題材的作者們傾向于將更多的重點放在重新定義父母在撫養(yǎng)孩子上所充任的傳統(tǒng)角色參見 parent