patriarch

Other forms of patriarch

plural

patriarches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patriarch

What does patriarch mean?

patriarch means "title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patriarch?

patriarch has 3 syllables: pa-tri-arch. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹk/.

What is another word for patriarch?

Close synonyms include paterfamilias. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patriarch a common word?

patriarch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with patriarch?

3 words rhyme with patriarch. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.