Meaning

2 senses
  1. In a male homosexual couple, the nonbiological father (partner of the biological father) of a child.

  2. (obsolete)A person in the relationship of a godfather to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.

Origin

From co- + father, in sense 1 as a calque of Latin compater, French compère.

From co- + father, in sense 1 as a calque of Latin compater, French compère.

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