housefather

English

Etymology

From house +‎ father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.

Noun

housefather (plural housefathers)

  1. The father of a family; the male head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primative community.
  2. A man in charge of a house in a boarding school
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