FATHER-FIGURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does father-figure mean? • FATHER-FIGURE (noun)
The noun FATHER-FIGURE has 1 sense:
1. a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
Familiarity information: FATHER-FIGURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FATHER-FIGURE (noun)
Meaning:
A man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("father-figure" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
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