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- noun A respected, high-ranking male
elder orleader ; apatriarch ; aforefather ; agrandfather .
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Perhaps from Middle English hehfader, heahfeder, from Old English hēahfæder ("patriarch", literally "high-father"); or perhaps a direct borrowing of the Old English word, equivalent to high + father.
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