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Padres

Padre \Pa"dre\ (p[aum]"dr[=a]), n.; pl. Sp. & Pg. Padres (p[aum]"dr[=a]s); It. Padri (p[aum]"dr[=e]). [Sp., Pg., & It., fr. L. pater father. See Father.]

  1. A Christian priest or monk; used as a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America); -- also used in the American military.

    Syn: Father.

  2. In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region.
    --Kipling.

  3. A chaplain in one of the military services.

    Syn: military chaplain, Holy Joe, sky pilot.

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padres

n. (plural of padre English)

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PADRES

Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos, y Sociales ( Spanish for "Priests Associated for Religious, Education, and Social Rights") is a Chicano Catholic priest's organization. PADRES was founded in October 1969 by a group of Mexican-American priests who pushed for an end to discrimination towards Mexican Americans within the church hierarchy and in American society in general. PADRES effectively ceased to function in 1989, after accomplishing its primary objectives.

Padres (disambiguation)

The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California.

Padres may also refer to

  • PADRES, a Chicano priests' organization
  • PADRES (Publish Subscribe), an event management infrastructure
  • Tucson Padres, a minor league baseball team in Tucson, Arizona
  • San Diego Padres (PCL), a former minor league franchise in the Pacific Coast League
  • Padres FC, a football club in Australia

Usage examples of "padres".

As for the two padres, they did not comment on the obvious lack of attention being paid them.

The short, dark human was gazing at the two padres with eyes that were a little too wide and muscles that were taut to the point of twitching.

Truhands wove patterns in the air as the two padres exited the pavilion.

The wounded sharpshooter stood halfway between the two padres and the perplexed Skettle.

Alert but cautious, the two padres waited to see what the other thranx would do.

She told me the story of the lost mine of the padres, an' she kissed me an made joyful over me in the strangest way.

He had heard that Padres, long ago, had been men of honor, healers and dispensers of mystery.

He remembered the Padres in the villages, the people, the children, running for the huts as soon as they appeared.

Decomposed remains had been found in a remote area of the Los Padres National Forest, but I hadn't registered the name.

The Angeles and Los Padres national forests are both dumping grounds for homicide victims, whose corpses one imagines littering the hiking trails like bags of garbage.