father-figure

1. 1.

   a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically

   Broaderman

Questions about father-figure

What does father-figure mean?

father-figure means "a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically".

How many syllables are in father-figure?

father-figure has 4 syllables and divides as fa-ther--fi-gure under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is father-figure a common word?

father-figure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.