filial duty

1. 1.

   duty of a child to its parents

   Broaderduty

   Narrowerobedience

Questions about filial duty

What does filial duty mean?

filial duty means "duty of a child to its parents".

Is filial duty a common word?

filial duty 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.