Having never married, he experienced fatherhood vicariously through his nieces and nephews.
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Fatherhood
//ˈfɑ.ðɚˌhʊd//
Synonyms for "fatherhood" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
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Related words (25)
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescoordinate
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 37 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- atësi noun (being a father)
Arabic
1 entries- أُبُوَّة noun (being a father)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ба́щинство noun (being a father)
Catalan
1 entries- paternitat noun (being a father)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 父性 noun (being a father)
Czech
1 entries- otcovství noun (being a father)
Danish
1 entries- faderskab noun (being a father)
Dutch
1 entries- vaderschap noun (being a father)
Esperanto
1 entries- patreco noun (being a father)
Estonian
1 entries- isadus noun (being a father)
Finnish
1 entries- isyys noun (being a father)
French
1 entries- paternité noun (being a father)
German
3 entries- Vaterschaft noun (being a father)
- Vatersein noun (being a father)
- Vatertum noun (being a father)
Hungarian
1 entries- apaság noun (being a father)
Icelandic
1 entries- faðerni noun (being a father)
Italian
1 entries- paternità noun (being a father)
Korean
1 entries- 아버지임 noun (being a father)
Latin
1 entries- paternitās noun (being a father)
Macedonian
1 entries- татковство noun (being a father)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- babînî noun (being a father)
- bavîtî noun (being a father)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- farskap noun (being a father)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- farskap noun (being a father)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پدری noun (being a father)
Phoenician
1 entries- 𐤀𐤁𐤕 noun (being a father)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Vodaschoft noun (being a father)
Polish
1 entries- ojcostwo noun (being a father)
Portuguese
1 entries- paternidade noun (being a father)
Romanian
1 entries- paternitate noun (being a father)
Russian
1 entries- отцо́вство noun (being a father)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- očinstvo noun (being a father)
Spanish
1 entries- paternidad noun (being a father)
Swahili
1 entries- ubaba noun (being a father)
Swedish
1 entries- faderskap noun (being a father)
Tagalog
1 entries- pagkaama noun (being a father)
Telugu
1 entries- పితృత్వము noun (being a father)
Turkish
1 entries- babalık noun (being a father)
Welsh
1 entries- tadolaeth noun (being a father)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Tom had no conception of what fatherhood entailed.
Source: tatoeba (1025574)
Yanni prepared for fatherhood.
Source: tatoeba (9796016)
Yanni ended all that partying and prepared for fatherhood.
Source: tatoeba (9796017)
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