[
UK
/bɪɡˈɛtɐ/
]
NOUN
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a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
his father was born in Atlanta
How To Use begetter In A Sentence
- Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense. The Feast of St. Joseph
- Since the party's preferred historical narrative casts it as the only begetter of China's liberation and subsequent rise, this awkward complication is hard to overlook. China's Confucian makeover | Isabel Hilton
- If there was an intellectual begetter of this movement, it was surely the biochemist Professor Michael Behe, whose book Darwin's Black Boxin 1996 expounded the theory of irreducible complexity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Thorpe rarely used words with much exactness. {403b} It is obvious that he did not employ 'begetter' in the ordinary sense. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
- Since the party's preferred historical narrative casts it as the only begetter of China's liberation and subsequent rise, this awkward complication is hard to overlook.
- But what remains unforeseeable is its true begetter, its receiver. Eugenio Montale - Nobel Lecture
- A Bradshaw board carries locked within its smooth husk the seed of its begetter.
- He was the only national newspaperman along with provincial compatriot JBG Thomas of the Western Mail to cover the full Lions tours of 1950 and 1955, was for more than 30 years the only begetter of the invaluable Rothmans Rugby Annual. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
- New Lanark, the most famous early mill village, was created and run by its begetter, Robert Owen, with a blend of benevolence and authoritarianism.
- However, he cannot properly be seen as the begetter of international law.