1.父亲
2.祖先，先辈
3.创始人，奠基人
4. 天父；上帝
5.（尤指天主教和东正教的）神父
及物动词：
1.成为父亲
2.创立（新思想）；创造，发明（新方法） 词形变化
- 时态 fathered，fathering，fathers
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- make children
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- Father‘ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); Padre‘ is frequently used in the military
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom