(noun) A (generally human) male who begets a child. Example: "My father was a strong influence on me."
"I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels."
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
"Is there anything more important than a child?"
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
"What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
"Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes."