Father In Different Languages. After mother, 'father' is the word that almost all the kids learn to speak. It gives a man immense pleasure to be called 'dad', 'daddy', 'baba', 'papa' or even 'abbu' by his child.
Definition of mandate. 1  1 : an authoritative command; especially : a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one. 2  2 : an authorization to act given to a representative accepted the mandate of the people.
1 (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary. 2  mandatory in Websterâs Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. 3  mandatory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911. 4  Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. 5  The Oxford English Dictionary.  damnatory.