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{
"term": "father",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a male parent of a child or an animal; a person who is acting as the father to a child",
"sensetop": "father to somebody",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "My father died in 2017."
},
{
"text": "Ben's a wonderful father."
},
{
"text": "Our new boss is a **father of three** *(= he has three children)*."
},
{
"text": "You've been **like a father** to me.",
"contextForm": "father to somebody"
},
{
"text": "He was a wonderful father to both his natural and adopted children."
},
{
"text": "I never met my **biological father**."
},
{
"text": "Father, I cannot lie to you."
},
{
"text": "Elena's brother was a surrogate father to her kids after her husband died."
},
{
"text": "He followed in his father's footsteps and became a motor mechanic."
},
{
"text": "Boland, a father of two, was arrested on charges of theft."
},
{
"text": "He followed the footsteps of his famous father into the film industry."
},
{
"text": "He had a domineering mother and a cold, distant father."
},
{
"text": "He has an ailing father and two younger brothers to support."
},
{
"text": "He has just become the proud father of a baby girl."
},
{
"text": "He is very good with children and would make a devoted father."
},
{
"text": "He paced like an expectant father."
},
{
"text": "He succeeded his father as Professor of Botany."
},
{
"text": "He was both a bad husband and a bad father."
},
{
"text": "I always thought of you as a second father."
},
{
"text": "I buried my father, and mourned his death."
},
{
"text": "I lost my father when I was nine."
},
{
"text": "Jesse is now married and father to a young son."
},
{
"text": "Meet your new father."
},
{
"text": "Ryan has gone looking for his long-lost father."
},
{
"text": "She followed her father into the legal profession."
},
{
"text": "She inherited the urge to travel from her father."
},
{
"text": "She kept the books that had belonged to her beloved father."
},
{
"text": "Some of his students regard him as a father figure."
},
{
"text": "The land passes on from father to son."
},
{
"text": "The new father took his son into his arms."
},
{
"text": "The two boys were like their mother in character, but Louise took after her father."
},
{
"text": "Their musician father encouraged their love of music."
},
{
"text": "Try your best to honour your father."
},
{
"text": "a married father of two"
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships", "Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["lone", "single", "married"],
"verb + father": ["resemble", "take after", "follow"],
"father + noun": ["figure"],
"phrases": [
"a father of two, etc.",
"father to somebody",
"follow in your father’s footsteps"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person’s ancestors (= people who are related to you who lived in the past)",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the land of our fathers"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the first man to introduce a new way of thinking about something or of doing something",
"sensetop": "father (of something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Henry Moore is considered to be the father of modern British sculpture."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "used by Christians to refer to God",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Father, forgive us."
},
{
"text": "God the Father"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "the title of a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Father Dominic"
}
],
"topics": ["Religion and festivals"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "from one generation of a family to the next",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)",
"labels": "(disapproving)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "we believe a thing because we want it to be true",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfɑːðə(r)/",
"audio": "fa/father/father__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfɑːðər/",
"audio": "fa/father/father__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English fæder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vader and German Vater, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr."
}