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Compound of house + father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
housefather
Today it means: 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. Full definition →