Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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patriarch | Yes | No | No | No |
Noah | Yes | No | No | No |
patriarch (noun) | Noah (noun) |
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the male head of family or tribe | the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis |
any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | |
title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | |
a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself |