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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | father |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, begetter, creator, forefather, lord, parent, pater, procreator |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to pass, build, cause to be, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, give birth to, give life to, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | creator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inventor; God |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, begetter, brain, deity, designer, founder, framer, generator, initiator, maker, originator, prime mover, producer, sire |
| Antonyms: | destroyer, destructor |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male person who begets children |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source |
| Antonyms: | mother |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | father/mother |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | founder, inventor |
| Synonyms: | administrator, architect, author, builder, creator, dean, elder, encourager, generator, initiator, introducer, leader, maker, matriarch, motor, mover, organizer, originator, patriarch, patron, prime mover, promoter, promulgator, publisher, sire, sponsor, supporter |
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, author, begetter, forerunner, founder, materfamilias, matriarch, originator, parent, paterfamilias, patriarch, precursor, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor, relative, sire |
| Main Entry: | get |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce offspring |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, generate, procreate, produce, propagate, sire |
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, bring forth, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, design, devise, dream up, engender, formulate, generate, get up, give birth, incubate, induce, invent, lay eggs, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, spitball, think up, throw together, trump up, whip up, work up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, give birth to, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn |
| Antonyms: | kill |
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