If by that they meant my father, I did not believe them.

It has been suggested that the name means "father of the tribe".

It was a moment before he realized that she meant Flood's father.

That is what he means your father to understand.

When asked, the guide told him it meant "father of daughters".

Of course he really meant her father, but it sounded rather dubious.

And another odor that could only mean his father.

Only roundears can follow him to where he is now, and that means either you or your father.

Gradually they became the heads of each independent regional church and were called Patriarch which means common father.

The High Court interpreted the term parent to mean father.