搜尋結果
patriarch
- IPA[ˈpātrēˌärk]
美式
- the male head of a family or tribe.；a man who is the oldest or most venerable of a group
noun: patriarch, plural noun: patriarchs
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the male head of a family or tribe.
- ▪ a man who is the oldest or most venerable of a group Hollywood's reigning patriarch rose to speak
- ▪ a person or thing that is regarded as the founder of something the patriarch of all spin doctors
- 2. any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob.
- 3. a bishop of one of the most ancient Christian sees (Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and formerly Rome).
- ▪ the head of an autocephalous or independent Orthodox Church Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
- ▪ a Roman Catholic bishop ranking above primates and metropolitans and immediately below the Pope, often the head of a Uniate community Patriarch of Venice
