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upwards(medicine)
upwards(dictionary)
Father's Day(dictionary)
Our Father(dictionary)
father-in-law(dictionary)
father(2)(dictionary)
father(1)(dictionary)
Father(health)
Age of father(health)

father 1, noun (oh) and upwards (oh)


father 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?parent?
2 ?priest?
3 fathers
4 ?god?
5 the father of something
6 from father to son
7 like father like son
8 a bit of how's your father
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[Language: Old English; Origin: fAder]
?PARENT?
a male parent
::Ask your father to help you.
::Andrew was very excited about becoming a father.
::He's been like a father to me.
a father of two/three/four etc
(=a man with two, three etc children)
::The driver, a father of four, escaped uninjured.
::Steve recently became the proud father of a 7lb 12oz baby girl.
?PRIEST?
Father
a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic church
::I have sinned, Father.
::Father Devlin
-see also Holy Father
fathers [plural] people related to you who lived a long time ago
-synonym ancestors ancestors
::Our fathers were exiles from their native land.
-see also forefather
?GOD?
Father
a way of talking to or talking about God, used in the Christian Religion
::our Heavenly Father
the father of sth
the man who was responsible for starting something
::Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
from father to son
if property or skill passes from father to son, children receive it or learn it from their parents
::This is a district where old Crafts are handed down from father to son.
like father like son
used to say that a boy behaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad
a bit of how's your father
BrE informal the act of having sex - used humorously
-see also city fathers , founding father

upwards (oh)



moving or pointing towards a higher position
-opposite downwards downwards
::Pointing upwards, he indicated a large nest high in the tree.
::The path began to climb steeply upwards.
increasing to a higher level
-opposite downwards downwards
::The expected rate of inflation was revised upwards.
::Prices are moving upwards again.
more than a particular amount, time etc
::children of 14 and upwards
::The meeting was attended by upwards of (=over) 500 people.