Father
Father noun - A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father).
Usage example: his father was born in Atlanta
Mother
Mother noun - A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother).
Usage example: the mother of three children
How words are described
| beloved | beloved father | beloved mother |
| loving | loving father | loving mother |
| human | human father | human mother |
| good | good father | good mother |
| Other adjectives: foster, dying, true, dead, single, overbearing, abusive, actual, real, evil, bad, absent, young, white, new, alcoholic, deceased, late, surrogate, adoptive, adopted, biological, divorced, widowed. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Most of the time it'll be their mother or father... even if both their Mother and Father are living in your fort as the event takes place.
Source: Video Game / Rebuild - In Golden Axe, the Arcade Mode lays out the three heroes' motivations: Death Adder killed Ax Battler's mother, Tyris Flare's father and mother, and Gillius Thunderhead's brother.
Source: You Killed My Father - Jerrica is near identical to their mother but Kimber, with her pinkish-red hair, doesn't resemble either her father or mother.
Source: Hollywood Genetics
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