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• n  a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• The begetter of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith died last week in Manhattan.
• Le petit Grand Prix is already one of the hottest pastimes in California, the nation's begetter of vogues, and is spreading east.
• Nemo's begetter, Andrew Stanton, 37, looks a dozen years younger and decades more innocent.

• father
• male parent

• mother
• female_parent