音标：['fɑ:ðә]
n. 父亲, 祖先, 长辈, 神父, 创始者
vt. 当...的父亲, 保护, 创作, 发明, 培养
英汉词典

father的短语、例句：

father n 1 male parent 父亲; 爸爸: That baby looks just like her father! 那婴儿真像她父亲.
You´ve been (like) a father to me. 您对我一直像父亲一样. =>App 8 见附录8. 2 (usu pl 通常作复数) ancestor 祖先
the land of our fathers 我们祖先的土地. 3 founder or first leader 创始人; 先驱; 鼻祖
city fathers 城市中德高望重的元老
the Pilgrim Fathers, ie English Puritans among the first European settlers in the USA 美国的开国先驱（最早自欧洲移居美洲的英国清教徒）
the Father of English poetry, ie Chaucer 英国诗歌之父（乔叟）. 4 Father God 上帝; 圣父: Our (Heavenly) Father 我们的天父 * God the Father 上帝. 5 title of certain priests, esp those belonging to religious orders 神父. 6 (idm 习语) be gathered to one´s fathers => gather. the child is father of the man => child. from ,father to `son from one generation of a family to the next 家族中从一代人至另一代人
The farm has been handed down from father to son since 1800. 该农场自1800年起一直代代相传. like ,father, like `son (saying 谚) a son´s character, actions, etc resemble, or can be expected to resemble, his father´s 有其父必有其子. old enough to be sb´s mother/father => old. the wish is father to the thought => wish n. father v [Tn] 1 be the male parent of (sb); beget 做（某人的）父亲; （作为父亲）生育（子女）
father a child （作为父亲）生个孩子. 2 (fig 比喻) create (sth); originate 发明（某物）; 创始
father a plan, an idea, a project, etc 最先提出一项计画、 一种思想、 一项设计等. 3 (phr v) father sb/sth on sb say that sb is the father or originator of sb/sth 将某人说成是某人之父或某事物之创始人
It´s not my scheme; try fathering it on somebody else. 这不是我的计策, 你去问问别人看是谁出的主意吧.