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paterfamilias
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun paterfamilias has 1 sense
- paterfamilias(n = noun.person) patriarch - the male head of family or tribe; Array is a kind of head of household, adult male, man
CIDE DICTIONARY
paterfamilias, n. [L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.].
The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
paterfamilias, n. the male head of a family or household.
Etymology
L, = father of the family
THESAURUS
paterfamilias
abba, boss, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary, dad, daddy, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, father, foster father, genitor, goodman, governor, guru, husband, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, master, overlord, pa, padrone, pap, papa, pappy, paramount, pater, patriarch, patron, pop, pops, rabbi, sahib, seigneur, seignior, sire, starets, stepfather, teacher, the old manROGET THESAURUS
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Paternity
N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.
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