fatherly
pronunciation
How to pronounce fatherly in British English:
UK [ˈfɑ:ðəli]
How to pronounce fatherly in American English:
US [ˈfɑðərli]
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- Adjective:
- like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
- showing the affection of a father
Word Origin
- fatherly (adj.)
- Old English fæderlic "fatherly, paternal; ancestral;" see father (n.) + -ly (1). Similar formation in Dutch vaderlijk, German väterlich. Related: Fatherliness.
Synonym
Example
- 1. He keeps a fatherly eye on his players .
- 2. The mountains are silent , fatherly love is silent .
- 3. He took her by the hand with fatherly tenderness .
- 4. Let me give you a little fatherly .
- 5. Doing his fatherly duty , a male oreophryne frog in papua , new guinea , cradles his clutch and two newly hatched froglets .