(noun) the male head of a household / (noun) the father of a family / (noun) a man who originates or is a leading figure in something (as a movement, discipline, or enterprise)
Speer knew Hitler as a "solicitous paterfamilias"
In these early years of Don Carlos’s life, relations with the pater- familias were still good
He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.
In short, I discovered that once a week, at her house, she betrayed me with a respectable paterfamilias, who, incidentally, was so infernally meticulous that he would bring his own shoe trees with him.
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who appears to play the role of a surrogate paterfamilias
He was born in one of its North Shore suburbs; he was raised, reached adulthood, and became a paterfamilias as a “typical suburbanite.”