Fatherly

Definitions: Fatherly

Fatherly

Adjective

1. Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.

2. Showing the affection of a father.

Date "fatherly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Fatherly

Synonym: fatherlike (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal; friendly.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fatherly

English words defined with "fatherly": paternalism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fatherly": Philemon, Epistle to. (references)

Etymologies containing "fatherly": Fatherliness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Fatherly Love (1921)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Dads Say the Dumbest Things: A Collection of Fatherly Wit and Wisdom (reference) The Motherly and Fatherly Roles in Education (reference) The Priceless Book of Fatherly Wisdom: A Father's Journal of Timeless Advice (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Thus, whether a family by degrees grew up into a common-wealth, and the fatherly authority being continued on to the elder son, every one in his turn growing up under it, tacitly submitted to it, and the easiness and equality of it not offending any one, every one acquiesced, till time seemed to have confirmed it, and settled a right of succession by prescription: or whether several families, or the descendants of several families, whom chance, neighbourhood, or business brought together, uniting into society, the need of a general, whose conduct might defend them against their enemies in war, and the great confidence the innocence and sincerity of that poor but virtuous age, (such as are almost all those which begin governments, that ever come to last in the world) gave men one of another, made the first beginners of commonwealths generally put the rule into one man's hand, without any other express limitation or restraint, but what the nature of the thing, and the end of government required: which ever of those it was that at first put the rule into the hands of a single person, certain it is no body was intrusted with it but for the public good and safety, and to those ends, in the infancies of commonwealths, those who had it commonly used it. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fatherly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Fatherly" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.31%	58	44,427
Noun (proper)	1.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "fatherly": fatherly-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fatherly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prindëror (parental), i dashur prej babai, atëror (paternal). (various references)

Arabic		‏أبوي (parental, pater, paternal, paternalist). (various references)

Bulgarian		грижлив (attentive, careful, mindful, nice, regardful, solicitous, tender, thorough, thoughtful, tidy), нежен (affectionate, dainty, delicate, dovelike, downy, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melodious, melting, slender, soft, sweet, tender, womanly), бащински (parental, paternal). (various references)

Czech		otcovský (parental, paternal). (various references)

Finnish		isällinen (paternal). (various references)

French		paternel. (various references)

German		väterlich (paternal, paternally). (various references)

Greek		πατρικόσ (parental, paternal). (various references)

Hebrew		אב�"י (paternal). (various references)

Hungarian		atyai (parental, paternal). (various references)

Italian		paterno (paternal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		師父 (fatherly master). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しふ (Chinese poetry, fatherly master). (various references)

Manx		ayroil (paternal). (various references)

Norwegian		faderlig. (various references)

Pig Latin		atherlyfay

Portuguese		paternalmente, paternal (paternal), órfão (orphan, orphaned). (various references)

Romanian		pãrintesc (fatherlike, parental, paternal, paternalist). (various references)

Russian		отеческий (paternal, paternalistic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		očinski (paternal, paternalistic). (various references)

Spanish		paternal (genitive, parental, paternal). (various references)

Swedish		faderlig (parental, paternal). (various references)

Turkish		babaya ait (paternal), babacan (easygoing, good natured), baba gibi (paternal). (various references)

Ukranian		ніжний (affectional, affectionate, balmy, delicate, devoted, fond, melting, sentimental, silken, silky, sisterly, soft, tender), батьківський (parental), по-батьківському. (various references)

Welsh		tadol (paternal), tadaidd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "fatherly": grandfatherly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fatherly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atherlay, Atherley, Eatherley, Fathalla, fatherley, Fathhulla, Fathulla, Fitzhenry, Gatherley, Hatherely. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fatherly" (pronounced fÄ"therlē)
4	-th er l ē	brotherly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, motherly, northerly, southerly, Weatherly.
3	-er l ē	bitterly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, formerly, gingerly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, neighborly, northeasterly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, painterly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, quarterly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, spectacularly, tenderly, utterly, westerly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-l-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: earthly, lathery.
	-2 letters: earthy, elytra, falter, father, fealty, featly, flayer, hafter, halter, hearty, hyetal, lather, lyrate, realty, thaler, trefah.
	-3 letters: after, alert, alter, artel, early, earth, ethyl, faery, farle, fatly, feral, ferly, fetal, flare, flyer, flyte, haler, hater, hayer, heart, hefty, later, lathe, lathy, layer, leafy, leary, lefty, lyart, ratel, rathe, refly, relay.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-l-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: flycatcher.
	+3 letters: flycatchers.
	+4 letters: farsightedly.
	+5 letters: freeheartedly, grandfatherly, halfheartedly, hyperinflated, softheartedly.
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