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Padre

//ˈpɑdɹeɪ// noun

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Noun

1
A military clergyman.
2
A player for the San Diego Padres.
"Jones became a Padre as the result of a pre-season trade."
3
‘Father’ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); ‘Padre’ is frequently used in the military wordnet
4
A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
"The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages."
5
a chaplain in one of the military services wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian padre, Spanish padre, or Portuguese padre (“priest”), which are from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

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