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papa

noun as in father

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How does “the papa,” the upholder of tradition, as the musical’s opening number spells out, maintain his self-respect, if not his authority?

But not before papa Ozzy got a few words in edgewise.

The IT engineer revealed Monzo only stopped when their four-year-old daughter started crying and said "mama" and "papa".

From BBC

Other times, with my gramma, papa, aunts, uncles and cousins, we’d maybe sit on the picnic tables out front, or take the food back to the house to eat in front of the TV.

From Salon

“One Light, One Sun” implores its listeners to treat the Earth as precious, while “Everything Grows” explains that we are all ever-changing, even the “mamas” and “papas.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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