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padre

/ˈpɑdɹeɪ/

padre noun: a military clergyman.

padre: man in black suit standing beside woman in black dress
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Noun (1)

padre (plural padres or padri)

  1. A military clergyman.
  2. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
    • The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages.1979, James Wakefield Burke, A Forgotten Glory: the Missions of Old Texas, Waco, TX: Texian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62

Noun (2) capitalized: Padre

Padre (plural Padres)

  1. A player for the San Diego Padres.
    • Jones became a Padre as the result of a pre-season trade.

padre meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

padre in Tamil

அப்பா, தந்தை

padre in Malayalam

priest, chaplain, minister (of religion)
പാതിരി, ക്രിസ്തീയപുരോഹിതൻ, വെെദികൻ, പുരോഹിതൻ, സഭാ ശുശ്രൂഷക്കാരൻ, പട്ടക്കാരൻ

padre in Kannada

ಪಾಡ್ರೆ

Forms of padre

pluralpadres
pluralpadri
pluralPadres

Plural of padre: padres or padri

Origin of padre

Borrowed from Italian padre, Spanish padre, or Portuguese padre (“priest”), which are from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

Phrases with padre

Questions about padre

What does padre mean?
Padre means a military clergyman.
What is padre in Tamil?
Padre in Tamil is அப்பா, தந்தை. See Padre meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is padre?
Padre is a noun.
How do you pronounce padre?
Padre is pronounced /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/.
What is the plural of padre?
The plural of padre is padres.

Words near padre in the dictionary

  1. padow
  2. padows
  3. PaDP
  4. padparadscha
  5. padparadschas
  6. padre
  7. Padre Burgos
  8. Padre Dandan
  9. Padre Garcia
  10. Padre Zamora
  11. Padrenda

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: padre (page history and authors); Padre (page history and authors); padre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); padre (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); padre (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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