See Also: father 2, verb(dictionary)
Our Father(dictionary)
Father's Day(dictionary)
father(2)(dictionary)
father(1)(dictionary)
Father(health)
Age of father(health)
father-in-law(dictionary)
father(medicine)
FATHER-IN-LAW(law)

father 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant
::Hodgkins fathered seven children.
formal to start an important new idea or system
::Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.
father on [father sth on sb] phr v
formal to claim that someone is responsible for something when they are not
::A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him.