Father

Father

A father (or dad) is defined as a male parent or Individual progenitor of human offspring. The adjective "paternal" refers to a father and comparatively to "maternal" for a mother. The verb "to father" means to procreate or to sire a child from which also derives the gerund "fathering". Fathers determine the gender of their child through a sperm cell which either contains an X chromosome (female), or Y chromosome (male).

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Famous quotes containing the word father:

    “For if my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.”
    —Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

    “A dryness is upon the house
    My father loved and tended.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, -Why have you done thus and so?”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:6.