Noun

1. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
2. The founder of a family
3. `father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the roman catholic church or the orthodox catholic church); `padre' is frequently used in the military
4. (christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the roman catholic church some were later declared saints and became doctor of the church; the best known latin church fathers are ambrose, augustine, gregory the great, and jerome; those who wrote in greek include athanasius, basil, gregory nazianzen, and john chrysostom
5. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
6. God when considered as the first person in the trinity
7. A person who founds or establishes some institution
8. The head of an organized crime family

Verb

1. Make children