fatherhood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fa=ther=hood

CIDE DICTIONARY

fatherhood, n. 

 The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

fatherhood

affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternalness, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood

ROGET THESAURUS

fatherhood

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.