dad

• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dad, n. colloq. father.

Etymology

perh. imit. of a child's da, da (cf. DADDY)

THESAURUS

dad

Methuselah, abba, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, daddy, dodo, elder, father, fogy, fossil, foster father, fud, fuddy-duddy, genitor, governor, granny, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, pa, pap, papa, pappy, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, sire, square, starets, stepfather, the old man, traditionalist

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dad

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.