Thesaurus results for PATRIARCH

patriarch

noun

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 Sometimes finding the right trees can be an adventure, hiking into forests and mountains to find the oldest trees, patriarchs that hold centuries of information. —

Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 28 June 2026 Instead, Reynolds observes that these sober men bore little resemblance to the roistering patriarchs of the remote plantations. —

James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 Not the comedian or podcaster or the reality TV patriarch. —

Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026 Miles Teller plays a straight-as-an-arrow, hardworking engineer patriarch. —

Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for patriarch

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Noun

In 1926, Brian's great-grandfather, Henry Knoebel, opened a pool that would mark the official start of the family’s park.

— Eve Chen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The supplies will be taken to Miami and then Venezuela by Olarte Transport, said volunteer Andrea Casanova, 28, whose grandfather was in Venezuela when the earthquakes struck.

— Melody Xu, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of grandfather

Noun

The news of the arrest caught the attention of the family of Amy McHale, a woman who was once married to Horsch’s father and disappeared nearly 10 years ago.

— Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Her oldest sister, Sonia Gonzalez, said Gonzalez reminds her a lot of their father, who reinvented himself many times over the years.

— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026