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Word: paternal (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Acting as a father; ''as'' in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).
  • Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  • Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; ''as'', "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
  • Received or inherited from one's father.

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