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Father is a related term of antecedent.


As a proper noun father

is (christianity) god, the father of creation.

As an adjective antecedent is

antecedent, preceding.

As a noun antecedent is

antecedent (any thing that precedes another thing).

father

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (generally human) male who begets a child.
  • * Bible, Proverbs x. 1
  • A wise son maketh a glad father .
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10
  • David slept with his fathers .
  • * Bible, Rom. iv. 16
  • Abraham, who is the father of us all
  • * Shakespeare
  • Bless you, good father friar!
  • A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
  • * Bible, Job xxix. 16
  • I was a father to the poor.
  • * Bible, Genesis xiv. 8
  • He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
  • The founder of a discipline or science.
  • A senator of Ancient Rome.
  • Synonyms

    * (parent) See also

    Antonyms

    * (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

    Hypernyms

    * (a male parent) parent

    Derived terms

    * Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfather

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a father to; to sire.
  • * 1592 , v 4
  • Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
  • (figuratively) To give rise to.
  • * 1610 — ii 2
  • Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
  • To act as a father; to support and nurture.
  • * 1610 — iv 2
  • Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
  • To provide with a father.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?
  • To adopt as one's own.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.

    See also

    * beget * grandpa * pater * paternal *

    Statistics

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    antecedent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Earlier, either in time or order.
  • an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
    an antecedent cause
  • presumptive
  • an antecedent improbability

    Noun

    {{examples-right, sense=linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun, examples= * In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. * In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.}} (en noun)
  • Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  • An ancestor.
  • (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  • * Fowler
  • [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who'' is appropriated to persons, so ''that'' should have been appropriated to things the antecedent of ''that is often personal.
  • *
  • One such condition can be formulated in terms of the
    c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16)
    below:
    (16)    C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
            An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
  • (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
  • (rfex)
  • (math) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the consequent.
  • Synonyms

    * (something which precedes) precedent, precursor * (an ancestor) ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor

    Antonyms

    * (in logic) consequent, (for sequents) succedent * (in linguistics) anaphor

    Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    See also

    * juxtaposition ----