Le mot anglais du jour

father

père

Définitions

anglais > français
father
1. n. (Fami) Père.
2. v. Engendrer, devenir le père de.
anglais > anglais
father
1. n. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
My father was a strong influence on me.
My friend Tony just became a father.
2. n. , trans-album=The Borrowers
3. n. , , Father, dear fatherWill you be proud of me?I wish I could beJust like you.
4. n. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
5. n. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
Come, father; you can sit here.
6. n. A term of respectful address for a priest.
7. n. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.
The child is father to the man.
8. n. The founder of a discipline or science.
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.
9. n. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
10. n. A senator of Ancient Rome.
11. v. To be a father to; to sire.
12. v. (figuratively) To give rise to.
13. v. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
14. v. To provide with a father.
15. v. To adopt as one's own.
français > anglais
père
1. n-m. father (parent)
2. n-m. father (clergyman)
3. n-m. Sr. (senior) (postnomial title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son)