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father noun—父 n (almost always used) ()father's father's father—Examples:incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law—(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers—Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13—Matthan, son of Eleazar and father of Jakob in Matthew 1.15—uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father)—Abraham, father of Judaism and Islam in the Bible and Quran—Chronos, Greek God and cannibalistic child abuser, father of Zeus—Azor (son of Eliakim and father of Zadok in Matthew 1:13-14)—lit. acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal—Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry—Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine—high versus low social hierarchy of ruler people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism—Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet—memorial tablet in a temple commemorating a deceased father—the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)—great-grandfather (father of one's paternal grandfather)—Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry—"I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt)—polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law—(old) child, particularly referring the son who resembles his father—in the Name of the Father (in Christian worship)—Zadok (son of Azor and father of Achim in Matthew 1:13)—(coll.) father's father's father—(old) three generations (father, self and sons)—title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author—uncle (term used address a man about the age of one's father)—Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science—Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother— |