Padre Definition

pädrā, -drē
noun
Father: the title of a priest in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Webster's New World
A priest or chaplain.
Webster's New World
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pronoun
(baseball) A player on the team the "San Diego Padres".
Jones became a Padre as the result of a pre-season trade.
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Other Word Forms of Padre

Noun

Singular:
padre
Plural:
padres

Origin of Padre

  • From Italian, Spanish, Portuguese padre (“priest"), from Latin pater (“father"), from Proto-Indo-European *phâ‚‚tḗr.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese all from Latin pater patr- father pəter- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Padre Sentence Examples

  • Programs for analyzing molecular shape and measuring shape complementarity for docked complexes are available for download, including FADE and PADRE.

  • As an army padre he has held a variety of appointments in Germany and the United Kingdom.

  • The service will be conducted by the RAF padre, and all are welcome.

  • The great pioneer in the path of independent research, which, with the intelligent use of documentary and historical evidence, has led to so vast an increase in our acquaintance with the Roman Catacombs, was Padre Marchi of the Society of Jesus.

  • His father, Antonio Maria Martini, a violinist, taught him the elements of music and the violin; later he learned singing and harpsichord playing from Padre Pradieri, and counterpoint from Antonio Riccieri.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAD

Words Ending With

EREDRE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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