You should apologize to Dad for not coming home in time for supper.
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Dad
//dæd//
Synonyms for "dad" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
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More general
3 entriesAntonyms
5 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
5 entriescoordinate
6 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
distinct from
3 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas property
2 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
97 entriesShowing 16 of 97 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
193 translations across 87 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- pa noun (informal: a father)
- papa noun (informal: a father)
Albanian
1 entries- babi noun (informal: a father)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πάππας noun (informal: a father)
Arabic
3 entries- أبي noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- بابا noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- بَابَا noun (informal: a father)
Armenian
1 entries- պապա noun (informal: a father)
Assamese
1 entries- বাবা noun (informal: a father)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dədə noun (informal: a father)
Bashkir
2 entries- атай noun (informal: a father)
- атай noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Basque
1 entries- aitatxo noun (informal: a father)
Belarusian
2 entries- ба́ця noun (informal: a father)
- та́та noun (informal: a father)
Bengali
1 entries- বাবা noun (informal: a father)
Bulgarian
1 entries- та́тко noun (informal: a father)
Catalan
2 entries- papa noun (informal: a father)
- papà noun (informal: a father)
Chinese
4 entries- ада noun (informal: a father)
- баба noun (informal: a father)
- дада noun (informal: a father)
- де noun (informal: a father)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 爸爸 noun (informal: a father)
- 爹哋 noun (informal: a father)
- 阿爸 noun (informal: a father)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 爸 noun (informal: a father)
- 爸爸 noun (informal: a father)
- 爹 noun (informal: a father)
Chukchi
2 entries- атэ noun (informal: a father)
- татай noun (informal: a father)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- tata noun (informal: a father)
Czech
1 entries- tatínek noun (informal: a father)
Dutch
1 entries- pappa noun (informal: a father)
Esperanto
2 entries- paĉjo noun (informal: a father)
- paĉjo noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Estonian
2 entries- issi noun (informal: a father)
- taat noun (informal: a father)
Ewe
1 entries- baba noun (informal: a father)
Faroese
1 entries- babba noun (informal: a father)
Finnish
4 entries- faija noun (informal: a father)
- isi noun (informal: a father)
- isi noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- iskä noun (informal: a father)
French
2 entries- papa noun (informal: a father)
- papa noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Galician
3 entries- pai noun (informal: a father)
- papai noun (informal: a father)
- papá noun (informal: a father)
Georgian
1 entries- მამა noun (informal: a father)
German
4 entries- Papa noun (informal: a father)
- Papa noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- Papi noun (informal: a father)
- Papi noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Greek
1 entries- μπαμπάς noun (informal: a father)
Hebrew
2 entries- אַבָּא noun (informal: a father)
- אַבָּא noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Hindi
4 entries- अब्बा noun (informal: a father)
- पापा noun (informal: a father)
- पिताजी noun (informal: a father)
- बाप noun (informal: a father)
Hungarian
2 entries- apa noun (informal: a father)
- apu noun (informal: a father)
Icelandic
1 entries- pabbi noun (informal: a father)
Ido
1 entries- papa noun (informal: a father)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- باب noun (informal: a father)
- بابا noun (informal: a father)
- پِدَر noun (informal: a father)
Irish
4 entries- daid noun (informal: a father)
- daid noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- deaide noun (informal: a father)
- deaide noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Italian
4 entries- babbo noun (informal: a father)
- babbo noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- papà noun (informal: a father)
- papà noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Japanese
4 entries- お父さん noun (informal: a father)
- お父さん noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- パパ noun (informal: a father)
- 父 noun (informal: a father)
Kannada
1 entries- ಅಪ್ಪ noun (informal: a father)
Karakalpak
1 entries- ataqay noun (informal: a father)
Kazakh
1 entries- әке noun (informal: a father)
Khmer
1 entries- ឳ noun (informal: a father)
Korean
2 entries- 아버지 noun (informal: a father)
- 아빠 noun (informal: a father)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- аке noun (informal: a father)
- атаке noun (informal: a father)
Latgalian
2 entries- tēte noun (informal: a father)
- tēteite noun (informal: a father)
Latin
1 entries- tata noun (informal: a father)
Latvian
1 entries- tētis noun (informal: a father)
Lithuanian
1 entries- tėtis noun (informal: a father)
Louisiana Creole
4 entries- pap noun (informal: a father)
- pap noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- papa noun (informal: a father)
- papa noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Lushootseed
1 entries- babaʔ noun (informal: a father)
Macedonian
3 entries- тате noun (informal: a father)
- татко noun (informal: a father)
- тато noun (informal: a father)
Malayalam
2 entries- അച്ഛന് noun (informal: a father)
- ബാപ്പ noun (informal: a father)
Marathi
2 entries- पप्पा noun (informal: a father)
- बाबा noun (informal: a father)
Mazanderani
1 entries- بابا noun (informal: a father)
Mongolian
1 entries- аав noun (informal: a father)
Māori
1 entries- e para noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Ndzwani Comorian
1 entries- ɓɓangu noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pappa noun (informal: a father)
Pipil
1 entries- tēku noun (informal: a father)
Polish
4 entries- tata noun (informal: a father)
- tata noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- tato noun (informal: a father)
- tato noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Portuguese
4 entries- pai noun (informal: a father)
- papai noun (informal: a father)
- papá noun (informal: a father)
- papá noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Romanian
1 entries- tată noun (informal: a father)
Russian
4 entries- ба́тюшка noun (informal: a father)
- ба́тюшка noun (familiar address of one's own father)
- ба́тя noun (informal: a father)
- ба́тя noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Sanskrit
1 entries- तात noun (informal: a father)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tȁta noun (informal: a father)
- та̏та noun (informal: a father)
Slovak
3 entries- otecko noun (informal: a father)
- tatko noun (informal: a father)
- tatík noun (informal: a father)
Slovene
4 entries- ata noun (informal: a father)
- oče noun (informal: a father)
- očka noun (informal: a father)
- tata noun (informal: a father)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ада noun (informal: a father)
Spanish
2 entries- papá noun (informal: a father)
- papá noun (familiar address of one's own father)
Swahili
1 entries- baba noun (informal: a father)
Swedish
1 entries- pappa noun (informal: a father)
Tagalog
1 entries- ama noun (informal: a father)
Tajik
2 entries- дада noun (informal: a father)
- дадо noun (informal: a father)
Tamil
2 entries- அப்பா noun (informal: a father)
- தந்தை noun (informal: a father)
Telugu
2 entries- అయ్యా noun (informal: a father)
- నాన్న noun (informal: a father)
Thai
1 entries- พ่อ noun (informal: a father)
Turkish
1 entries- baba noun (informal: a father)
Turkmen
1 entries- däde noun (informal: a father)
Tz'utujil
1 entries- tata’ noun (informal: a father)
Ukrainian
4 entries- не́ньо noun (informal: a father)
- та́тко noun (informal: a father)
- та́то noun (informal: a father)
- тату́сь noun (informal: a father)
Urdu
4 entries- اَبّا noun (informal: a father)
- بابا noun (informal: a father)
- باپ noun (informal: a father)
- دادا noun (informal: a father)
Uzbek
1 entries- dada noun (informal: a father)
Vietnamese
4 entries- ba noun (informal: a father)
- bố noun (informal: a father)
- cha noun (informal: a father)
- thầy noun (informal: a father)
Volapük
1 entries- fatül noun (informal: a father)
Welsh
3 entries- dad noun (informal: a father)
- tad noun (informal: a father)
- tada noun (informal: a father)
Yiddish
1 entries- טאַטע noun (informal: a father)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
It looks like Yokkun's dad ran off with his nursery school teacher.
Source: tatoeba (29896)
Mum, why doesn't Dad clean his own study?
Source: tatoeba (32496)
Can I go out to play, Dad?
Source: tatoeba (35108)
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