| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A male parent: father. Informal : dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy2, pop2. Slang : old man. See KIN. | | VERB: | 1. To be the biological father of: beget, breed, father, get, procreate. See KIN. 2. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, spawn. Idioms: give birth (or rise) to. See MAKE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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