Associations to the word «Housefather»
Wiktionary
HOUSEFATHER, noun. 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.
HOUSEFATHER, noun. A man in charge of a house in a boarding school
Dictionary definition
HOUSEFATHER, noun. A man in charge of children in an institution.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.