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All-Father

All-Father proper noun: the chief god of a pantheon.

Proper noun

the All-Father

  1. The chief god of a pantheon.
  2. (Germanic, Norse) Odin.

Noun

All-Father (plural All-Fathers)

  1. A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.
    • Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves.1891, Philip Hankinson Newnham, The All-father: Sermons Preached in a Village Church, page 27
    • At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic...1913, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, page 737

All-Father meaning in Tamil

All-Father in Tamil

கடவுள், பரமபிதா, கிரேக்கப்பெருந்தெய்வம் சியூஸ், டியூடானியப்பெருந்தெய்வம் ஓடன்

Forms of All-Father

Proper noun
alternative formAllfather
Noun
pluralAll-Fathers

Origin of All-Father

Calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

Questions about All-Father

What does All-Father mean?
All-Father means the chief god of a pantheon.
What is All-Father in Tamil?
All-Father in Tamil is கடவுள், பரமபிதா, கிரேக்கப்பெருந்தெய்வம் சியூஸ். See All-Father meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is All-Father?
All-Father can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near All-Father in the dictionary

  1. all-encompassing
  2. all-englobing
  3. all-everything
  4. all-expense
  5. all-expenses-paid
  6. All-Father
  7. All-Fathers
  8. all-female
  9. all-figure number
  10. all-figure numbers
  11. all-fire

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