Thesaurus results for PATRIARCH

patriarch

noun

Definition of patriarch

as in grandfather

a man who is the head of a family Investors worried that the aging patriarch was soon to be replaced atop the family business by his less reliable oldest son.

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Recent Examples of patriarch The five-person clan (including a charming Max Greenfield as patriarch Ted, and Eitan Friedman and Matan Friedman as those wild brothers) live in relative domestic tranquility in Small Town Anywhere, USA. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026 Not surprisingly, her own take on eternal life echoed that of the fictional family patriarch, Angus Tuck. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026 The Baker family, who previously lost their patriarch (Taye Diggs) in season 5, faces peril once again when Olivia (a returning Samantha Logan) seems to have complications with her pregnancy. — Kat Pettibone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026 Cliven Bundy, the family patriarch, rallied hundreds of supporters to block the roundup of his cattle, sparking a days long armed standoff between law enforcement and the Bundy group near the town of Bunkerville, outside of Las Vegas. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for patriarch

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Noun

Vance is set to speak at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works facility, which was known as Armco Steel when his grandfather James Vance worked there for nearly 40 years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
As for Harris, her grandfather's brick now has a place of honor at home.

— Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of grandfather

Noun

Sawyer Strosnider stepped into the batter’s box for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Wednesday afternoon with his mom, Kandi, in the second row behind home plate, and his dad, Scott, a few hundred feet away in the right-field bleachers.

— Devon Henderson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
The kitten's strengths include climbing up the back of the couch, crashing his dad's work calls and shadow chasing.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of dad

Noun

Vernon, meanwhile, is encouraging people to remember that there was a man, a husband and father behind the headlines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
His six children inherited the franchise through a family trust, with Jeanie continuing to oversee the team’s business operations and succeeding her father as the Lakers’ representative on the NBA Board of Governors.

— Law Murray, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026