father figure
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.85 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who represents, behaves as, or is regarded as equivalent to a father for another person or group of people.
Example Sentences
- "[Editor David W. Blight said:] Deeply in need of father figures and spiritual hope, and “religiously seeking knowledge,” as he recalled it, the slave boy [the young Frederick Douglass] turned to a religious black man, a freeman named Charles Lawson, who worked as a drayman for a rope maker and lived on Happy Alley in Fells Point. Frederick spent countless hours with Lawson in the drayman’s shack reading the bible aloud, singing hymns, and praying together. “I could teach him the letter, but he could teach me the spirit,” Douglass remembered. Throughout his life Douglass would teach his teachers and learn from them at the same time. From old Lawson he gained […] above all […] a belief in a benevolent and protective God, the faith that his “life was under the guidance of a wisdom higher than my own.”"
- "Tudjman, the national father-figure, emerged as the improbable and unexpected victor of the wars of the Yugoslav succession of 1991-99."
- "Orphaned at a young age, he found a father figure in the confident and committed al-Bahri."