- Patriarch - title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
--1 is a kind of spiritual leader
--1 has particulars: Nestorius- patriarch, paterfamilias - the male head of family or tribe
--2 is a kind of man, adult male; head of household
- patriarch - any of the early Biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
--3 is a kind of forefather, father, sire
--3 has particulars:antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch; Jacob; Simeon; Abraham, Ibrahim; Benjamin; Isaac; Ishmael; Issachar; Joseph; Judah; Methuselah; Noah; Reuben - patriarch - a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
--4 is a kind of old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah
- patriarch, paterfamilias - the male head of family or tribe