père

[ per; English pair ]

/ pɛr; English pɛər /

noun, plural pères [per; English pairz] /pɛr; English pɛərz/. French.

father.

senior: Dumas père.

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Examples from the Web for pere

Pere Navarro, head of the Catalan socialist party, said: "We need a new head of state."
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In 1982, Assad pere massacred 20,000 of his own people in Hama.
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Gaddafi pere has cast his sons against each other in an effort to divide and conquer, as he has done to his nation.
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Sources tell us that she has kept Mubarak pere from naming a Vice President.
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One day, recovering from loss of consciousness, he asked Pere Tellier to give him absolution for all his sins.
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"You may bring up the bundle, porter," quoth the Pere Noble.
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Pere Grandet returned from the garden with the fruit and arranged a plateful on the kitchen-table.
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"Come to the chateau, you and your otter,—if you really have one," he said to Pere Fourchon.
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It was not, however, pere Kontzen's terrace nor his appetizing fried dishes that drew them on.
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British Dictionary definitions for pere

père

/ French (pɛr, English pɛə) /

noun

an addition to a French surname to specify the father rather than the son of the same nameDumas père Compare fils 1

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Word Origin and History for pere

pere

1610s, "a French priest," from French père "father," from Latin patrem (nominative pater); see father (n.). Attached to a name, to distinguish father from son of the same name, from 1802.