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A (generally human) male who begets a child.
* Bible, Proverbs x. 1
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10
* Bible, Rom. iv. 16
* Shakespeare
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
* Bible, Job xxix. 16
* Bible, Genesis xiv. 8
The founder of a discipline or science.
A senator of Ancient Rome.
To be a father to; to sire.
* 1592 , v 4
(figuratively) To give rise to.
* 1610 — ii 2
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
* 1610 — iv 2
To provide with a father.
* Shakespeare
To adopt as one's own.
* Jonathan Swift
(Greek mythology) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
* 1995 , Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology ,
* 2000 , Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis ,
* 2005 , M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology ,
A programming language invented by Guido van Rossum, named after Monty Python .
(informal) The British comedy troupe .
A member of Monty Python': Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin; referred to collectively as ''The '''Pythons .
As a proper noun father
is (christianity) god, the father of creation.As a noun python is
a type of large constricting snake.father
English
Noun
(en noun)- A wise son maketh a glad father .
- David slept with his fathers .
- Abraham, who is the father of us all
- Bless you, good father friar!
- I was a father to the poor.
- He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
Synonyms
* (parent) See alsoAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, childHypernyms
* (a male parent) parentDerived 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 * * stepfatherVerb
(en verb)- Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
- Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
- Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
- Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?
- Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.
See also
* beget * grandpa * pater * paternal *Statistics
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Proper noun
(wikipedia Python) (en proper noun)page 11,
- Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python', and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the ' Python , suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
page 70,
- It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python' coiled round the omphalos.Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.413 ' Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
page 183,
- Python', says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent '''Python''' being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by ' Python is understood the ruin of the waters ; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows ; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
- John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons .