father

[1]	sire , beget , get , engender , procreate , generate
[2]	originate , establish , found , invent , author , frame , initiate , institute , create
[3]	beget , get , engender , mother , sire , generate , bring forth

[1]	male parent , sire , paterfamilias , begetter , (Colloq) dad , daddy , pa , papa , pop , old man , old boy , (Brit) governor , pater
[2]	forebear , forefather , sire , ancestor , forefather , progenitor , primogenitor
[3]	creator , Padre , founder , originator , inventor , author , architect , framer , initiator
[4]	priest , Church Father , Father of the Church , confessor , minister , pastor , shepherd , parson , clergyman , chaplain , (Colloq) padre , (Military) (Slang) sky pilot
[5]	Father-God , Fatherhood
[6]	founder , beginner , founding father
[7]	don