Patriarch

/pˈætɹɪˌɑːk/

/ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹk/

Patriarch

a powerful or respected man who serves as the head of a family or tribe

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

Examples

1. The patriarch has always been an iron fist in a velvet glove.

2. A patriarch controls everything, the people around himself.

3. The first part is called patriarch.

4. - Patriarch pees, vomits, bleeds, and overdoses in the backyard.