батюшка — meaning in English
batyushka
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English meaning
- dad noun A father; an informal, affectionate word for one's male parent.
- daddy noun A father, especially as used by young children or in affectionate address.
- father noun A male parent.
- patronymic adj Derived from one's father.
- priest noun A person trained and ordained to lead religious services and rites in a church or temple.
Senses
батюшка is used for these senses in English:
- Father (Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.
- dad (informal) A father, a male parent.
- dad Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
- daddy (slang, obsolete) The person who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.
- father A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- father A term of respectful address for a priest.
- patronymic (onomastics, by extension) A name acquired from the first name of one's father, grandfather or earlier (male) ancestor. Some cultures use a patronymic where other cultures use a surname or family name; other cultures (like Russia) use both a patronymic and a surname.
- priest A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
daddy — full definition
- noun A father, especially as used by young children or in affectionate address.
- noun Slang: an attractive or dominant older man, often used as a term of admiration or address.