Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun father-figure

1 sense of father-figure

Sense 1
father-figure -- (a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically)
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")


1 sense of father figure

Sense 1
father figure, father surrogate -- (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")