padre

n. priest (Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian); military chaplain (Informal)

For facts about the Major League Baseball team, see San Diego Padres. Padre (pronounced ) is a commonly used term for a military chaplain in the American, Australian Army, British and the Canadian Forces. "Padre" (Spanish and Italian for Father) is the common term of address for all chaplains by all ranks.
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Noun
1. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
(synonym) Father
(hypernym) priest

Noun
1. a chaplain in one of the military services
(synonym) military chaplain, Holy Joe, sky pilot
(hypernym) chaplain
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine

n. father, sire, governor

adj. tremendous, enormous; fatherly, paternal; senior

n. father; parent; reverend; sire, male parent of an animal