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papa

[pah-puh, puh-pah] / ˈpɑ pə, pəˈpɑ /
NOUN
father
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


Example Sentences

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‘You’ve got to take care of mama bear and papa bear first.’

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

Someone’s got to pay as papa becomes grand-père, but the forecast is bleak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

After scoring a goal in stoppage time, he pulled up his Liverpool shirt to show a T-shirt underneath bearing the message "freedom for papa".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

“Yes, papa, it is written out in our second page. We copied it from the Elegant Extracts. It was Garrick’s, you know.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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