Patriarch Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Patriarch

head of family
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architect
The definition of an architect is a professional who creates designs for buildings, bridges and other structures.
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head
The foremost or leading position:
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inventor
A person who invents; esp., one who devises a new contrivance, method, etc.
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author
The works of an author or authors.
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creator
One that creates:
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entrepreneur
The definition of an entrepreneur is a person who takes an idea, product or service and does whatever is necessary to introduce it to the marketplace where it can produce revenue.
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maker
(Usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.
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parent
The definition of a parent is a mother or father.
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chief
(Slang) A supervisor; a boss.
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founder
One who establishes something or formulates the basis for something:
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leader
The definition of a leader is a person, animal or thing that guides or directs.
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male
The definition of a male is a person of the sex that produces sperm (as opposed to a female who produces an egg).
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sire
A biological father.
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venerable
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paterfamilias
A man who is the head of a household or the father of a family.
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father
One's father.
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master
(Nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
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originator
Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
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Antonyms for Patriarch

matriarch
A highly respected woman who is a mother.
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Words Related to Patriarch

archimandrite
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paulicians
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ruler
One, such as a monarch or dictator, that rules or governs.
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Patriach
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ancestor
(Figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
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elder
(--- Mormon Ch.) A member of the Melchizedek priesthood
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start
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
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aristobulus
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pontiff
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martyr
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saturninus
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anastasius
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prelate
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caliph
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Patriarch Sentence Examples

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

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

  • It is his duty to act as regent; it is his duty to compose the dissensions in the principality of Antioch, and to repress the violences of the prince towards his patriarch (1154); it is his duty to reconcile Antioch with Edessa, when the two fall to fighting.

  • The assizes may speak of patriarch and king as conjoint seigneurs in Jerusalem; but as a matter of fact the king could secure the nomination of his own patriarch, and after Dagobert the patriarchs are, with the temporary exception of Stephen in 1128, the confidants and supporters of the kings.

  • In 1833-1835 he published The Splendid Village; Corn-Law Rhymes, and other Poems (3 vols.), which included "The Village Patriarch" (1829), "The Ranter," an unsuccessful drama, "Keronah," and other pieces.

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