Plural of patriarch

Forms of patriarch

Patriarchs in a sentence

• Fictional male antiheroes like television’s crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up – and become the cause of her own downfall.2021 August 11, Jacqui Palumbo, “Rosamund Pike in ‘I Care a Lot’ and six more recommendations if you love an antiheroine”, in CNN, archived...
• The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets.1906, Henry Barclay Swete, “Authorship”, in The Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introd., notes and indices, Macmillan, page clxx. From the entry pseudepigrapha
• These postcanon works share two qualities: anonymous or pseudepigraphic authorship and unsubstantiated or obviously false connections to Jesus or his family, apostles, patriarchs, or prophets.2001, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of World Religions, page 5. From the entry postcanon
• The beards even of the younger men might have been those of patriarchs, for the frost and the salt spray had made them white.1919, Ernest Shackleton, chapter 8, in South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917, London: Heinemann, page 134. From the entry salt spray
• It took a long time — sometimes 10 or 15 years — for the fungus to kill a tree, especially if it were one of the patriarchs we have described.1932 April 1, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Can We Bring Back the Chestnut?”, in The University of the State of New York: Bulletin to the…. From the entry bicentenarian

Meaning of patriarch

1. noun The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank.
2. noun A male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
3. noun A founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.

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Questions about the plural of patriarch

What is the plural of patriarch?

The plural of patriarch is patriarchs.

Is patriarch countable?

Patriarch is a countable noun.