PAPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papa mean? 

• PAPA (noun)
  The noun PAPA has 1 sense:

1. an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

  Familiarity information: PAPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dad; dada; daddy; pa; papa; pappa; pop

Hypernyms ("papa" is a kind of...):

begetter; father; male parent (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))

 Context examples 

Oh! papa, we have missed seeing them but one entire day since they married.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I can't think what papa can have been about, when he chose such a vexatious thing to be my companion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is just the hour when papa most wants company: when the works are closed and he has no business to occupy him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yes; you see his papa can, and why should not I?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Let me go, or I will tell my papa.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You and papa, and my sisters, must come down and see us.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Boy and girl. Aren't they beauties?" said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But, all things considered, I do not know whether it is not as well that it should be so, for, though you know (owing to me) your papa and mama are so good as to bring her up with you, it is not at all necessary that she should be as accomplished as you are;—on the contrary, it is much more desirable that there should be a difference.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If I don’t get it by Monday, I shall be in your papa’s Bench, wailed the little man, and as the footman led him out we could hear him, amidst shouts of laughter, still protesting that he would wind up in papa’s Bench.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She said, her papa and mamma had promised that Grildrig should be hers; but now she found they meant to serve her as they did last year, when they pretended to give her a lamb, and yet, as soon as it was fat, sold it to a butcher.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)