Father

1. n. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
2. n. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
3. n. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; — in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
4. n. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
5. n. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
6. n. A senator of ancient Rome.
7. n. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
8. n. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; — often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
9. n. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.