père

[ per; English pair ]

/ pɛr; English pɛər /

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noun, plural pères

[per; English pairz]. /pɛr; English pɛərz/. French.

father.

senior: Dumas père.

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Words nearby père

per diem, perdition, perdu, perdurable, perdure, père, Perea, Père David's deer, peregrinate, peregrination, peregrine

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How to use père in a sentence

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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Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
The first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.
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L le pere Birat dit la Messe, & fit ce qu'il peut pour ranger vn chacun ce qui estoit du devoir.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Also, I did manage, in the fullness of time, to deliver La Pere's ten thousand dollars without further gun-play.
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Camusot promised to purchase a plot of ground for her in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise.
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British Dictionary definitions for père

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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