housefather
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From house + father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.
Noun[edit]
housefather (plural housefathers)
- The father of a family; the male head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primative community.
- A man in charge of a house in a boarding school