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Housefather

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paterfamiliasnounA man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.
househeadnounThe head of a household, typically the primary wage-earner.
pater familiasnounAlternative spelling of paterfamilias. [A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.]
highfathernoun(rare) A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader; a patriarch; a forefather; a grandfather.
householdernounThe head of a household.
patriarchnoun(biblical) A male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
head of householdnounThe person responsible for governing a group that lives together, such as a family.
husbandnounA man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
lordnounA peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
father of the housenounThe member of a legislative house who has served the longest collective time in office.
sirenounA lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
fatherdomnounThe world, sphere, or unity of fathers; fathers collectively.
materfamiliasnounThe female head of a household.
fathernounA male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
familianoun(historical) A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
houseparentnounA housemother or housefather.
forthfathernoun(obsolete) Forefather.
housewifenoun(plural "housewives") A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
householdnounCollectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
fathershipnounThe state of being a father

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