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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
paternal
adj 1: belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his
childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits"
2: characteristic of a father [ant: maternal]
3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
"parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal]
[ant: filial]
4: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn:
agnate, agnatic, paternal]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Paternal \Pa*ter"nal\, a. [L. paternus, fr. pater a father: cf.
F. paternel. See Father.]
1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the
disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a
father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a
paternal estate.
[1913 Webster]
Their small paternal field of corn. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
Paternal government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the
governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the
people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their
business and social concerns, upon the theory that they
are incapable of managing their own affairs.
[1913 Webster]
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
PATERNAL. That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal
power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line.
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Thesaurus Results for paternal:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
adoring, affectionate, ancestorial, ancestral, concerned, conjugal, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fatherlike, fatherly, filial, fond, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental, husbandly, indulgent, kindly, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental, patriarchal, patrilateral, patrilineal, patrilinear, patrimonial, romantic, sentimental, soft, solicitous, tender, uxorious, wifely |
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Common Misspellings > |
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