father

Pronunciation: ['fɑ:ðә]

Average Rank: 316

Source: ECDICT

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

n. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
n. `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
n. a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
n. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk

Plural: fathers

Past Participle: fathered

Present Participle: fathering

Past: fathered

3rd Person: fathers

Word Frequency Rankings

#495

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.0% (Top 95.0% most frequent)

95.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#233

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 97.7% (Top 97.7% most frequent)

97.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#221

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 97.8% (Top 97.8% most frequent)

97.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.