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The Many Meanings of 'Father.' How Watergate Changed English. Punim
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The Meaning of the Word Father
The figurative use of the word father in this way to refer to a person deemed responsible for something doesn't appear until about the 15 hundreds, when socrates was mentioned as the father of philosophy. When we see meaning from an original sense to a more general sense like this, linguists call it semantic broadening. This has happened over and over again in the course of english. For example, the word thing was originally used to refer mainly to legal or judicial matters, but now it's used much more generally to refer to l sorts of things.
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