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| Main Entry: |
originator
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, begetter, designer, discoverer, father, founder, initiator, innovator, inventor, maker, mastermind, mother, pioneer, producer |
| Main Entry: | priest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | man who is minister in Roman or Orthodox Catholic church |
| Synonyms: | clergyperson, cleric, curate, divine, ecclesiastic, elder, father, father confessor, friar, holy man, lama, man of God, man of the cloth, monk, padre, pontiff, preacher, rector, vicar |
| Notes: | a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader |
| Main Entry: | relative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | member of a family |
| Synonyms: | agnate, aunt, blood, brother-in-law, clansperson, cognate, connection, cousin, father, father-in-law, folk, folks, grandparents, great-grandparents, in-laws, kinsperson, mother, mother-in-law, nephew, niece, relation, sib, sibling, sister-in-law, stepbrother, stepparent, stepsister, uncle |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | biological parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth mother or father |
| Synonyms: | biological father, biological mother, birth father, birth mother, birth parent, father, mother, natural parent |
| Main Entry: | birth parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | biological parent |
| Synonyms: | biological father, biological mother, birth father, birth mother, birth parent, father, mother, natural parent |
| Main Entry: | clergyman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | minister |
| Synonyms: | abbey, archbishop, bible thumper, bishop, blackcoat, cardinal, cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerk, curate, dean, devil dodger, divine, ecclesiast, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, harp polisher, missionary, monsignor, padre, parson, pastor, pontiff, preacher, predicant, priest, primate, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, rabbi, rector, reverend, sermonizer, shepherd, sky pilot, sky scout, the rev, turn-around collar, vicar |
| Antonyms: | layman, layperson |
| Main Entry: | man of the house |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | householder |
| Synonyms: | father, goodman, husband, lord and master, master of the house, paterfamilias, patriarch, provider |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, gaffer, generator, grandfather, graybeard, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, paterfamilias, ruler, senior, sire |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
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