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Webster 1913 Edition

Fatherhood

Fa′ther-hood

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Noun.

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fatherhood

F'ATHERHOOD

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Noun.

The state of being a father, or the character or authority of a father.

We might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood, or fatherly authority.

Definition 2024

fatherhood

fatherhood

English

Noun

fatherhood ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fatherhoods)

The state of being a father.

Translations

being a father

Albanian: atësi (sq)
Bulgarian: бащинство n ‎(báštinstvo)
Czech: otcovství n
Dutch: vaderschap (nl) n
Esperanto: patreco
Finnish: isyys (fi)
French: paternité (fr) f
German: Vaterschaft (de) f
Hungarian: apaság (hu)
Italian: paternità (it) f

Latin: paternitās f
Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤕 ‎(abt)
Polish: ojcostwo (pl) n
Portuguese: paternidade (pt) f
Russian: отцо́вство (ru) n ‎(otcóvstvo)
Serbo-Croatian: očinstvo (sh) n
Spanish: paternidad f
Tagalog: pagkaama
Turkish: babalık (tr)

See also