Usage
of ' Father ' in Some Choicest Literature...
The
Tempest
William Shakespeare
Ariel (singing): Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth
suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
King
Richard III
William Shakespeare
Good grandam, tell us, is our father dead
Emma
Jane Austen
The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour
to his father.
Tangled
Tale
Lewis
Carroll
His father courteously tried to make amends for his nonchalance
Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy, insisted Zaphod, rising himself
up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of
headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on."
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
An old man, named Father Fauchelevent, had fallen under his cart, his horse
being thrown down
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
His mother had a nicer smell than his father.
Grapes
of Wrath
John Steinbeck
His father opened the barn and passed out two picks and three shovels
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Whereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects,
upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he
runs his father in debt irretrievably
Usage Frequency
of the word
" Father "
"Father"
is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.57% of the time.
"Father" is used about 23,625 times out of a sample of 100 million words
spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in
the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples
used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth
of one percent have been omitted)
| Parts
of Speech |
Percent |
Usage
per
100 Million Words |
Rank
in English |
| Noun
(singular) |
92.57% |
21,869 |
409
|
| Noun
(proper) |
7.4% |
1,747 |
4,816
|
| Lexical
Verb (base form) |
0.02% |
5 |
157,705
|
| Lexical
Verb (infinitive) |
0.02% |
4 |
175,879
|
| Total |
100.00% |
23,625 |
N/A |
Expressions
: Father
Expressions
using "father": Adoptive father •
Apostolic father •
authority of father •
be the spit of smb.'s father •
church Father •
city father •
doting father •
father Brown •
father christmas •
father confessor •
father day •
father figure •
Father in God •
father in law •
Father longlegs •
Father of lies •
Father of the bar •
Father of the Faithful •
father of the family • Father of the house
• father on
• father smth.
on smb. • father
superior • father
surrogate •
father time •
father upon •
Foster father •
founding father •
God the Father Son and Holy Ghost •
grand father •
he is his father all over •
he is the picture of his father •
heavy father •
heir of the part of the father •
holy father •
like father •
like father like son •
most Reverend Father in God •
mother and father •
my father •
natural father •
our Father •
our heavenly father •
ours father •
penny father •
pilgrim father •
putative father •
reputed father •
reverend father •
shrift father •
spiritual father •
step father •
take after one's father •
the Father of Radio •
The Holy Father •
the wish the father to the thought •
To father on •
to father upon •
widowed father •
your father.
Hyphenated
Usage
Beginning
with "father": father-and-son, Father-Child
Relations, father-coach, father-complex, father-confessor, father-daughter,
father-figure, father-figures, Father-God, father-husband, father-husbands,
Father-in-common-law, Father-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law, Father-in-law-to-be,
father-in-science, father-i-want-to-kill-you, father-just, father-killer, father-king,
Father-lasher, father-like, father-love, father-more, father-mother, father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal,
father-my, father-never, father-of, father-of-five, father-of-four, father-of-one,
father-of-seven, father-of-six, father-of-three, father-of-two, father-protest,
father-religion, father-replacements, father-role, father-son, father-substitute,
father-surrogates, Father-to-be, father-to-son.
Ending
with "father": grand-father, step-father.
Containing
"father": Ex-father-in-law, mother-father-child.
Frequency
of the
Internet Keyword "Father"
The
following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major
English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications.
Each phrase with the word "father" is the search-engine keywords,
and the number next to it (ones in burgundy), is the respective Frequency per
Day ...
|
father
day ecard 804
father
day card 14,361
father
day greeting card 773
father
day poem 11,666
free
father day e card 764
father
day gift 11,099
2003
day father 754
father
day craft 6,116
card
day father print 741 |
father
3,792
art
clip day father 670
printable
father day card 3,101
father
and daughter 657
free
father day card 2,753
father
day greeting 652
father
day gift idea 1,747
clipart
day father 641
poem
for father 1,682
father
day poetry 625
|
card
day father free printable 1,582
history
of father day 584
father's
day 1,424
father
and son 569
father
day e card 1,113
happy
father day 543
father
day sermon 1,084
father
day picture 530
father
day idea 983
father
day activity 509 |
father
day craft for kid 959
day
father joke 497
dance
father 949
father
day craft idea 481
father day quote 905
coloring day father
page 460
father right 894
father day present
440
when is father day
840
father quote 436 |
The
Father Dictionary
fa·ther
n.
- A man who
begets or raises or nurtures a child.
- A male
parent of an animal.
- A male
ancestor.
- A man who
creates, originates, or founds something: Chaucer is considered the father
of English poetry.
- An early
form; a prototype.
- Father
Christianity.
- God.
- The
first person of the Christian Trinity.
- An elderly
or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
- A member
of the senate in ancient Rome.
- One of
the leading men, as of a city: the town fathers.
- or Father
A church father.
- (Abbr.
Fr.)
- A priest
or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
- Used
as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.
v., -thered, -ther·ing,
-thers.
v.tr.
- To procreate
(offspring) as the male parent.
- To act
or serve as a father to (a child).
- To create,
found, or originate.
- To acknowledge
responsibility for.
- (a) To attribute
the paternity, creation, or origin of.
(b) To assign
falsely or unjustly; foist.
v.intr.
To act or serve as a father.
[Middle
English fader, from Old English fæder.]
The
noun father has 4 meanings:
Meaning
#1: a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
Synonyms: male parent, begetter
Antonym: mother (meaning #1)
Meaning
#2: the founder of a family
Synonyms: forefather, sire
Meaning
#3: a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some
organization
Meaning
#4: a person who founds or establishes some institution
Synonyms: founder, beginner, founding father
The
verb father has one meaning:
Meaning
#1: make children
Synonyms: beget, get, engender, mother, sire, generate,
bring forth
The
Father Thesaurus
father
noun
1. A male parent: sire. Informal dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy2, pop2. Slang old
man. See kin.
2. A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, forebear,
forefather, foremother, mother, parent, progenitor. Archaic predecessor. See
kin, precede/follow.
3. One that creates, founds, or originates: architect, author, creator, entrepreneur,
founder2, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch. See start/end.
4. A first form from which varieties arise or imitations are made: archetype,
master, original, protoplast, prototype. See start/end.
verb
1. To be the biological father of: beget, breed, get, procreate, sire. See kin.
2. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, hatch, make,
originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idioms: givebirthriseto.
See make/unmake.
Synonyms
: Father
Synonyms: begetter (n), beginner (n), forefather (n), founder (n), founding
father (n), male parent (n), beget (v), bring forth (v), engender (v), generate
(v), get (v), mother (v), sire (v). (additional references)
Antonym: mother (n).
Synonyms within
Context : Father
| Age |
Seniority,
eldership; elders; (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture. |
| Attribution |
Verb:
attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace
to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground
on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account
for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put
the saddle on the right horse. |
| Clergy |
Clergyman,
divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor,
shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch;
reverend; black coat; confessor. |
| Credulity |
Phrase:
the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile; all is not
gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce; omne ignotum pro magnifico. |
| Deity |
The Trinity,
The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father
Son and Holy Ghost.
God
the Father; The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver. |
| Desire |
Phrase:
the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas; hoc erat in
votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus. |
| Dissimilarity |
Phrase:
diis aliter visum; " no more like my father than I to Hercules". |
| Hope |
Phrase:
nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan,
all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; "
the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering
tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis. |
| Misjudgment |
Phrase:
nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful thinking;
unshakable conviction; "my mind is made up - don't bother me with
the facts". |
| Paternity |
Parent;
father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator;
ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood;
mabap. |
| Posterity |
Phrase:
"the child is father of the man"; "the fruit doesn't fall
far from the tree", "like father, like son". |
| Similarity |
Phrase:
et sic de similibus; tel maitre tel valet; tel pere tel fils; like master,
like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the
tree; a chip off the old block. |
| The
Drama |
Company;
first tragedian, prima donna, protagonist; jeune premier; debutant, debutante;
light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso,
heavy father, ingenue, jeune veuve. |
| Time |
Glass
of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow
of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe. |
The
Antonyms of Father
father
noun
Definition:
founder, inventor
Antonyms: disciple, follower
noun
Definition:
male person who begets children; forefather
Antonyms: mother
verb
Definition:
create; generate
Antonyms: mother
