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patriarch   (TTS Sound)

The noun patriarch has 4 senses

• patriarch -- (title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem))


• patriarch, paterfamilias -- (the male head of family or tribe)


• patriarch -- (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)


• patriarch -- (a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself)