To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one's own.
To give rise to.
To be a father to; to sire.
The founder of a discipline or science.
A member of a church council.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
Something inanimate that begets.
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
A surrogate parent
An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
A parent company.
One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
The source or origin of something.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.