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Patriarch Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is FATHER which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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noun

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

verb

• make (offspring) by reproduction

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noun

• a person who is older than you are

• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• any of various church officers

adjective satellite

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

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noun

• (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy

• a genus of Psittacidae containing two extant parrot species from New Zealand and two extinct parrot species from Norfolk Island, Australia and Chatham Island, New Zealand, respectively (Nestor)

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Source #Number Answer
The Guardian Quick08 May 2015 Down 1
New York Times22 Jun 2005 Down 50
New York Times18 Feb 1999 Down 31
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