father vs patriarch

patriarch vs father

father and patriarch both are nouns.

father is a verb but patriarch is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
father	Yes	No	Yes	No
patriarch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, patriarch is a hyponym of father; that is, patriarch is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than father:

father: the founder of a family
patriarch: any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

father (noun)	patriarch (noun)
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)	the male head of family or tribe
the founder of a family	any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization	title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
a person who founds or establishes some institution	a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
the head of an organized crime family

father (verb)	patriarch (verb)
make (offspring) by reproduction

Difference between father and patriarch

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