housefather

English

noun
Definitions
  • 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

Etymology

Compound from English house (a house, company) + English father.

Origin

English

father

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