Phrase Hound found 45 phrases and 21 compound words that contain fathers. The most common are listed below. Open fathers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 45
- Founding Fathersplural of Founding Father: A man who founded something.
- Fathers' DayAlternative form of Father's Day: A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
- Church Fathersplural of Church Father: One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.
- Desert Fathersplural of Desert Father: Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a major influence on the development of Christianity.
- step-fathersplural of step-father; alternative spelling of stepfathers.
- Pilgrim Fathersplural of Pilgrim Father: A male Pilgrim (settler of the Plymouth Colony).
- fathers-in-lawplural of father-in-law: One's spouse's father.
- gold star fathersplural of gold star father: The father of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action.
- Cowley Fathersplural of Cowley Father: A member of the Society of St John the Evangelist.
- conscript fathersplural of conscript father: A senator of Ancient Rome.
- Fathers Christmasplural of Father Christmas: A mythical figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
- All-Fathersplural of All-Father: The chief god of a pantheon.
- baby fathersplural of baby father: The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
- birth fathersplural of birth father: The genetic father of a child (as opposed to an adoptive father or stepfather).
- bonus fathersplural of bonus father: A man who serves in a fatherly role to a child who has a different biological father, with or without formally marrying the child’s other parent and becoming a stepfather or going through the formal process of …
- city fathersplural of city father: A senior municipal official, especially an elected official such as a mayor, a controller, or a municipal legislator.
- co-fathersplural of co-father: A person in the relationship of a godfather to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
- fathers superiorplural of father superior: a friar or monk in charge of a monastery, priory or convent; an abbot or a prior
- Fathers' Daysplural of Fathers' Day: A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
- foster fathersplural of foster father: A male adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
- Great Fathersplural of Great Father: The preeminent male deity of various religions.
- single fathersplural of single father: A man raising a child on his own without a spouse or partner.
- wolf fathersplural of wolf father: A man who is fiercely protective of one or more people in his care.
- fathers of chapelplural of father of chapel: The chairperson or the senior shop steward of a trade union chapel (branch) in UK printing and journalism.
- fathers-out-lawplural of father-out-law: The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
Compound words 21
- forefathersplural of forefather: An ancestor.
- grandfathersplural of grandfather: A father of someone's parent.
- godfathersplural of godfather: A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
- Allfathersplural of Allfather: The chief god of a pantheon.
- allofathersplural of allofather: A male alloparent
- babyfathersplural of babyfather: The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
- biofathersplural of biofather: A biological father (especially one who does not act as a father).
- birthfathersplural of birthfather: The biological father of an adopted child.
- fathershipsplural of fathership: The state of being a father
- housefathersplural of housefather: 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 primitive community.