Crossword-Solution: PATERFAMILIAS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paterfamilias | n. | The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PATERFAMILIAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Father as a head of the household | 1 answer |
| V.I.P. on a low level | 1 answer |
| Head of the household? | 7 answers |
| ___-pop | 49 answers |
| Heading | 80 answers |
| Father | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATERFAMILIAS (5)
Several weeks' "courting" follows, paterfamilias agrees to part with a handsome share of his earnings, and a marriage is "arranged." In the case where the girl has retained some of her self-respect the suitor is made to come to her country for the ceremony.
Millionaires declined to send their sons to college, saying they would get ideas there that would unfit them for business, to Paterfamilias the one object of life.
Among wealthy New Yorkers, it was the fashion in the early fifties to pass a winter in Rome, when, together with his other dissipations, paterfamilias would sit to one of the American sculptors for his bust, which accounts for the horrors one now runs across in dark corners of country houses,--ghostly heads in "chin whiskers" and Roman draperies.
Paterfamilias, on the other hand, the common tourist, the holiday shopman, and the cheap young gentleman upon the spree, he hounded from his villages with every circumstance of contumely.
Such complaints remind one of an ancient paterfamilias, who insists on having his children and his grandchildren under the old paternal roof, and then grumbles because the butcher's bill is high.
Quotes with PATERFAMILIAS (2)
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by everything evil or commonplace t…
In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with them, his off-stage presence was as abiding and palpable as that of any paterfamilias away every day at the office). And Daniel himself. But better to be strange together than strange apart. He was glad to have found such a haven at …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).