Examples of “papa” in a Sentence

noun An affectionate or old-fashioned way to address your father; used like ‘dad’.

• Papa, will you help me fix my bike this afternoon?
• In the old film, the girl kissed her papa goodnight.
• My friend still calls her father papa, even though she is grown up.

noun A priest who leads a parish in the Greek Orthodox Church.

• The villagers gathered at the church, where the papa blessed the bread.
• Every Sunday the papa greets families at the door of the church.
• The papa visited the sick members of his parish this week.

noun Another way of writing ‘Papa’, the word for the letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

• The pilot spelled out the call sign: Papa, Alpha, Romeo.
• The operator wrote down the code, starting with Papa and then Delta.
• On the radio, the pilot said the flight number began with the letter papa.