pater

noun

1. British Informal. father.
2. (often initial capital letter) the paternoster; Lord’s Prayer.
3. a recitation of it.

noun

1. Walter Horatio,1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.

noun

1. Latin. father of his country.

noun

1. British mainly facetious a public school slang word for father

noun

1. Walter (Horatio). 1839–94, English essayist and critic, noted for his prose style and his advocation of the “love of art for its own sake”. His works include the philosophical romance Marius the Epicurean (1885), Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), and Imaginary Portraits (1887)