père

[ per; English pair ]

noun

, French.

, plural pères [pe, r, pairz].

1. father.
2. senior:

   Dumas père.

père

/ pɛr; pɛə /

noun

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

   Dumas père

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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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