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Another word for patriarch

Noun

  1. One that creates, founds, or originates

    2. See also:

    start

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Another word for patriarch

Noun
    2. See also:

    ruler

    elder

    chief

    ancestor

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Sentence Examples

  • The seat at the head of the table is always saved for the patriarch of the family.

  • In the West the only patriarch in the fully developed sense of the Eastern Church has been the bishop of Rome, who is patriarch as well as pope.

  • After his father died, Thomas stepped up to the role of family patriarch.

  • In Ethiopia, too, there were Catholici with less extensive powers, subject to the patriarch of Alexandria.

  • The patriarch of each Hebrew tribe was written about in the Old Testament.

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