Scrabble & Words with friends points
- fathers is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 13
- fathers is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 13
- fathers is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12
Definition of fathers
- `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military (noun)
Synonyms
- padre
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) (noun)
Examples
- his father was born in Atlanta
Synonyms
- begetter
- male parent
- (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom (noun)
Synonyms
- church father
- father of the church
- the founder of a family (noun)
Examples
- keep the faith of our forefathers
Synonyms
- forefather
- sire
- make (offspring) by reproduction (verb)
Examples
- John fathered four daughters
Synonyms
- beget
- bring forth
- engender
- generate
- get
- mother
- sire
- the head of an organized crime family (noun)
Synonyms
- don
- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity (noun)
Synonyms
- father-god
- fatherhood
- a person who founds or establishes some institution (noun)
Examples
- George Washington is the father of his country
Synonyms
- beginner
- founder
- founding father
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization (noun)
Examples
- the tennis fathers ruled in her favor
- the city fathers endorsed the proposal
See definition of fathers in Merriam Webster