"father" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

father sustantivo

sustantivo + father
Kolokacji: 44
Church Father • father of several children • father of several sons • father of several daughters • God Father • city father • ...
father + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 59
father figure • Father Christmas • Father Time • father John • Father Ted • ...
father + verbo
Kolokacji: 487
father dies • father owns • father teaches • father insists • father abandons • father stands • father sits • father tells • father retires • ...
verbo + father
Kolokacji: 295
kill one's father • see one's father • tell one's father • know one's father • call one's father • inherit from one's father • ...
adjetivo + father
Kolokacji: 158
biological father • loving father • Devoted father • adoptive father • abusive father • beloved father • late father • dead father • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 46
(3) Devoted, dedicated
Kolokacji: 2
(4) abusive, cruel, harsh
Kolokacji: 3
(5) beloved, dear, adored
Kolokacji: 3
(8) good, intellectual, lousy
Kolokacji: 3
(13) alcoholic, drunken
Kolokacji: 2
(14) proud, grand, wonderful, noble
Kolokacji: 4
(17) spiritual, holy
Kolokacji: 2
(18) poor, wealthy, rich
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Jewish, workaholic
Kolokacji: 2
1. great father = wielki ojciec great father
2. expectant father = przyszły ojciec expectant father
3. larger-than-life father = larger-than-life ojciec larger-than-life father
  • What is known is that Mary Cohan was adored by her larger-than-life father.
  • With regards to the dentist quote, Jennifer claims that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from the perspective of a young girl "surrounded by older brothers and a larger-than-life father."
  • The rejected-or rejecting-son, in the presence of the larger-than-life father.
  • "Ad Hoc at Home," by Thomas Keller, the precision-loving chef of French Laundry and Per Se fame, is inspired by his larger-than-life father (Adam Gopnik discusses the book in the magazine this week).
  • Meanwhile, Mr. August had fallen in love with "Big Fish," which tells the story of a larger-than-life father through his son's eyes.
  • Sons of larger-than-life fathers tend to become high achievers or no achievers at all, to try either to surpass their fathers' achievements, or to turn away from the competition.
  • Perhaps growing up in the shadow of his larger-than-life father was good preparation for playing opposite Mr. Stern.
  • She stated that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from the perspective of a young girl "surrounded by older brothers and a larger-than-life father."
  • The tragedy of JQA's life is that, for all his spectacular achievements, he was doomed to feel inadequate next to his larger-than-life father.
  • "It's finally going to happen," said City Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr., whose larger-than-life father, the late Frank Rizzo, was mayor when the quasi-public Penn's Landing Corporation was created in the 1970's to revitalize the waterfront.
(22) black, white, African-American
Kolokacji: 3
(23) different, respective, human
Kolokacji: 3
(25) Greek, Norwegian
Kolokacji: 2
(26) Irish, Chinese
Kolokacji: 2
(27) long-lost, founding
Kolokacji: 2
(28) Scottish, British
Kolokacji: 2
(29) strict, stern, indulgent
Kolokacji: 3
(33) distant, incestuous
Kolokacji: 2
(35) better, best, wise
Kolokacji: 3
(36) angry, violent, enraged, irate
Kolokacji: 4
(37) Franciscan, sainted, saintly
Kolokacji: 3
(38) Apostolic, Catholic
Kolokacji: 2
(42) bad, legal, invalid
Kolokacji: 3
(43) Indian, Japanese
Kolokacji: 2
(45) first-time, Muslim
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + father
Kolokacji: 44
of one's father • with one's father • to one's father • from one's father • for one's father • ...

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