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What (who) is father figure - definition

A MALE CONSIDERED A ROLE MODEL OR A CONFIDANT TO A YOUNGER PERSON

Father-figure; Father Figure; Mother figure

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Father figure

A father figure is usually an older man, normally one with power, authority, or strength, with whom one can identify on a deeply psychological level and who generates emotions generally felt towards one's father. Despite the literal term "father figure", the role of a father figure is not limited to the biological parent of a person (especially a child), but may be played by uncles, grandfathers, elder brothers, family friends, or others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_figure

father figure

also father-figure (father figures)

If you describe someone as a father figure, you mean that you feel able to turn to that person for advice and support in the same way that you might turn to your father.

She believed her daughter needed a father-figure...

He became a father figure to the whole company.

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Wikipedia

Father figure

A father figure is usually an older man, normally one with power, authority, or strength, with whom one can identify on a deeply psychological level and who generates emotions generally felt towards one's father. Despite the literal term "father figure", the role of a father figure is not limited to the biological parent of a person (especially a child), but may be played by uncles, grandfathers, elder brothers, family friends, or others. The similar term mother figure refers to an older woman.

Several studies have suggested that positive father figures and mother figures (whether biological or not) are generally associated with healthy child development, both in boys and in girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father figure

Examples of use of father figure

1. On the bench, Russell is the ever–encouraging father figure.

2. She needs her Daddy, she needs her father figure.

3. Croft became a father figure to the young Rhys Meyers.

4. "He was a father figure in the Sri Lankan Government.

5. "The boy looks on Carlos as something of a father figure.