Definition of patriarch

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • patriarch is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 16
  • patriarch is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 16
  • patriarch is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 17

Definition of patriarch


  • the male head of family or tribe (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. paterfamilias
  • a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself (noun)
  • any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race (noun)
  • title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) (noun)

See definition of patriarch in Merriam Webster