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Begetter

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A procreator; one who begets.

n. An originator; a creator.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who begets; a father.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who begets or procreates; a father.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

Word Usage

"The offspring must seek and love the begetter; and especially so when begetter and begotten are alone in their sphere; when, in addition, the begetter is the highest good, the offspring [inevitably seeking its Good] is attached by a bond of sheer necessity, separated only in being distinct."

Hypernym

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parent

Hyponym

father-in-law dad pa daddy papa

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

father author generator procreator

Same Context

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