patriarch
/'peitriɑ:k/
托福基础词汇
BNC词频: #15,691
当代词频: #10,741
中文释义
n. 创办人, 家长, 元老, 教长, (天主教)教皇
[法] 家长, 族长, 创始人
英文释义
n. title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
n. the male head of family or tribe
n. any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
n. a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself