| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A person from whom one is descended: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, forebear, forefather, foremother, mother, parent, progenitor. Archaic : predecessor. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A male parent: sire. Informal : dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy2, pop2. Slang : old man. See KIN. 3. A first form from which varieties arise or imitations are made: archetype, master, original, protoplast, prototype. See START. 4. One that creates, founds, or originates: architect, author, creator, entrepreneur, founder2, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch. See START. | | 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: give birth (or rise) to. See MAKE.
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