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.
If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote. 1  The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform. [+ for] The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike .