You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for April 3.

Today’s word is father, spelled f-a-t-h-e-r.

father /ˈfɑːðə $ -ər/ verb [transitive]

1. to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant

He fathered eight daughters and three sons.

2. formal to start an important new idea or system

Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.

Roosevelt fathered the concept of Social Security.

Unfortunately, Edison was not himself a musician, and the technology he fathered was never used for mass-producing serious musical records.

In the West, Fakhrizadeh was commonly referred to as Iran's Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who helped father the atomic bomb in 1945, and was considered among the most important nuclear scientists in Iran.

— Saphora Smith, NBC News, "Scientist seen as architect of Iran's nuclear program assassinated," 27 Nov. 2020

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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