patriarch

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noun

1. title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
• Hypernyms:
spiritual leader
• Instance Hyponyms:
Nestorius, Photius
2. the male head of family or tribe
• Syn:
paterfamilias
• Derivationally related forms:
patriarchal
• Hypernyms:
man, adult male, head of household
3. any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
• Hypernyms:
forefather, father, sire
• Hyponyms:
antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch, Jacob, Simeon
• Instance Hyponyms:
Abraham, Ibrahim, Benjamin, Isaac, Ishmael,
Issachar, Joseph, Judah, Methuselah, Noah, Reuben
4. a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
• Derivationally related forms:
patriarchal
• Hypernyms:
old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah