housefather
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of 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 primitive community.
- A man in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.