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(Caribbean, African-American Vernacular, Jamaica) The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
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The biological mother of an adopted child.
adj
Of or akin to; related; like
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brotherhood; the quality of being a brother
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People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
adj
Of or characteristic of brothers.
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(figuratively) A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
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(obsolete) The relationship of a godfather to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
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(obsolete) The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
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(rare) Of or pertaining to a cousin.
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(informal) A father, a male parent.
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(informal) Unprocessed trauma, especially in a girl, from having had an unhealthy relationship with one's father, causing one to behave erratically in romantic relationships.
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a father; paternal.
adj
(informal) Befitting a dad; fatherly.
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(informal) The role of being a dad; fatherhood
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(slang) Advice given to new fathers, often from other fathers.
adj
Relating to or characteristic of a daughter.
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(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic, derogatory) A man, especially one who is divorced or estranged from his partner, who fails to provide monetary child support when he is legally required to do so.
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(informal) A father who drives his child/children (especially his son) very hard to succeed.
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(countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
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The social circle comprising one's family.
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To provide with a father.
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(psychology) The longing felt by (especially young) men for approbation from a father, or father figure.
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Alternative form of father figure [One who represents, behaves as, or is regarded as equivalent to a father for another person or group of people.]
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A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.
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baby talk from the baby's father
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(dated) Fond term of address for one's father.
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(diminutive, endearing) A father.
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(slang) A group of friends who are close like a family.
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(transitive, often figuratively) To act as godfather or guardian to.
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(transitive) To act as godmother to.
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The quality of being grandmotherly.
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The father of a grandparent.
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(rare) A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader; a patriarch; a forefather; a grandfather.
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The father of a family; the male head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primative community.
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(slang, Britain) A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely.
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(slang) A childless man who enters into a relationship with a woman who has children, instantly becoming a father.
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(India, historical) A person regarded as having a somewhat parental role toward their dependents; a benevolent overseer.
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A person related through the mother, or her side of the family; a maternal relative.
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(obsolete) foster father
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(slang) One's male employer, irrespective of age.
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(Nigeria) The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.
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(informal, often derogatory) A parent.
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(formal or humorous) Father.
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Alternative spelling of paterfamilias [A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.]
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A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine
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A religious society of women.
adj
Of or characteristic of sisters.
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The role or position of sister.
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(transitive) To address (someone) as "son".
adj
Of or pertaining to a sister.
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A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.
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(US, slang, derogatory) A man who is the father of a woman's child or children, but no longer has a relationship, or has a hostile relationship, with the woman, and is typically uninvolved with the children as well.
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(informal, sometimes derogatory) A noncustodial father who has custody of or visitation with his child/children primarily or exclusively on weekends.
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