begetter

Other forms of begetter

plural

begetters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about begetter

What does begetter mean?

begetter means "a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)".

How many syllables are in begetter?

begetter has 3 syllables: be-get-ter. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for begetter?

Close synonyms include father, male parent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is begetter a common word?

begetter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.