father

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #194 ★★★★★

n. 父亲, 祖先, 长辈, 神父, 创始者 vt. 当...的父亲, 保护, 创作, 发明, 培养

发音

UK /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
/ˈfæ.ðə(ɹ)/
/ˈfæ.ðɐ/
SCOT /ˈfa.ðəɹ/
CA /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/
US /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/
AU /ˈfɐː.ðə/
IE /ˈfɒːðɚ/
CA /ˈfɒːðɚ/
其它 /ˈfɔ.ðɚ/
IN /ˈfɑː.d̪ə(r)/
/ˈfeɪ.ðəɹ/

词形变化

fatherer fathers 复数 fathers fathered fathering fathers 三单 fathering 现在分词 fathered 过去式 fathered 过去分词

别名

fadda fadder

教材释义与例句

名词

父亲,爸爸;神父;祖先;前辈

a male parent

动词

发明,创立;当…的父亲

to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).

    父亲

    爸爸

    老子

    老窦

    老豆

    阿爸

    爹亲

    娘爸

    娘父

    老爸

    My father was a strong influence on me.

  2. 2.

    A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.

    My friend Tony just became a father.

  3. 3.

    A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

  4. 4.

    A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

    Come, father; you can sit here.

  5. 5.

    A term of respectful address for a priest.

    神父

  6. 6.

    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.

  7. 7.

    A pioneering figure in a particular field.

    Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

  8. 8.

    Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

  9. 9.

    Something inanimate that begets.

  10. 10.

    A member of a church council.

    宗教
  11. 11.

    The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

    计算机 工程 数学
v.
  1. 1.

    To be a father to; to sire.

  2. 2.

    To give rise to.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    To act as a father; to support and nurture.

  4. 4.

    To provide with a father.

  5. 5.

    To adopt as one's own.

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Proto-Germanic *fadēr Proto-West Germanic *fader Old English fæder Middle English fader English father Inherited from Middle English fader. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.

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