Definitions for Pater

Pater pa·ter

Spelling: [pey-ter; also for 2, 3 pat-er]
IPA: /ˈpeɪ tər; also for 2, 3 ˈpæt ər/

Pater is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Pater (aeprt).

Definitions for Pater

noun

  1. British Informal. father.
  2. (often initial capital letter) the paternoster; Lord's Prayer.
  3. a recitation of it.
  4. Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
  5. Latin. father of his country.

Origin of Pater

1300-50; Middle English Latin: father

Examples for Pater

I could almost hear Davies saying that, as if pater had never so much as thought of it.

Mr. pater let me know that he was writing on it for the Guardian.

Names like Pappah, pater, and Pre would not cling to him; they fell off at once.

No, pater; but you may be taking on a bigger business than you reckon.

You're bound to listen to me, for what's the use of calling me 'pater,' and all that, if you don't mind what I say?

"High time for us—the pater's little infants—to be a-bed," he said, laughing.

Don't let the Mater and pater get the wind up about my personal safety.

"pater, we may as well keep Howards End out of it," he said.

It's an awful nuisance, and I shall probably have a row with the pater.'

I tipped the pater a pointer on that long ago, and got well cursed for my pains.

Word Value for Pater
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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