Padre
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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
Example
More examples"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."
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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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.