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Related / Similar Words: paterfamilias, Patriarch

 

Definition:
  • a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself;
  • any of the early Biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race;
  • the male head of family or tribe;
  • title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem);

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    Hyponyms: antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch, Jacob, Simeon, Abraham, Ibrahim, Benjamin, Isaac, Ishmael, Issachar, Joseph, Judah, Methuselah, Noah, Reuben, Nestorius

     

     
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