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highfather

noun
/ˈhaɪ ˌfɑːðə/UK/ˈhaɪ ˌfɑːðɚ/US

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from hēahfæder — “patriarch”
  2. inherited from hehfader

Definitions

  1. A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader

    A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader; a patriarch; a forefather; a grandfather.

    • There is no active worship for the Highfather, except at meal time, when all Mischta look into the sky and offer a symbolic thanks to him, whom they call "the Grandfather."
    • I do not have many powerful friends on earth, but rather they have gone forth, gone away from the joys of the world, sought for themselves the king of glory, they live now in heaven with the Highfather, dwell in glory.
    • As she led him into the house, she told him that the High Father, her adoptive great-grandfather, was equivalent to a Supreme Court Justice.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA