patriarch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
Types & categories
- spiritual leader hypernym
- Nestorius instance hyponym
- Photius instance hyponym
Sense 2 noun
the male head of family or tribe
Types & categories
- head of household hypernym
- man hypernym
Related & opposite
- patriarchal derivation
Sense 3 noun
any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
Types & categories
- forefather hypernym
- antediluvian hyponym
- Jacob hyponym
- Simeon hyponym
- Abraham instance hyponym
- Benjamin instance hyponym
- Isaac instance hyponym
- Ishmael instance hyponym
- Issachar instance hyponym
- Joseph instance hyponym
- Judah instance hyponym
- Methuselah instance hyponym
- Noah instance hyponym
- Reuben instance hyponym
Sense 4 noun
a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
Types & categories
- greybeard hypernym
Related & opposite
- patriarchal derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | spiritual leader |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Nestorius |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Photius |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | patriarchal |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | head of household |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | man |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | forefather |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | antediluvian |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Jacob |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Simeon |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Abraham |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Benjamin |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Isaac |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Ishmael |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Issachar |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Joseph |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Judah |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Methuselah |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Noah |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Reuben |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | patriarchal |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | greybeard |