FATHER-FIGURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does father-figure mean? 

• FATHER-FIGURE (noun)
  The noun FATHER-FIGURE has 1 sense:

1. a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically

  Familiarity information: FATHER-FIGURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATHER-FIGURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("father-figure" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))