Definition of paternal Paternal
/pʌtɚˈnʌl/ - [puternul] - pa•ter•nal
We found 12 definitions of paternal from 5 different sources.
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What does paternal mean?
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| paternal - characteristic of a father | ||
| maternal characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers | ||
| patriarchal characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | ||
| fatherliness, paternal quality the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears" | ||
| fatherlike, fatherly like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | ||
| paternal - belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits" | ||
| paternal - related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" | ||
| agnate, agnatic | ||
| related connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage | ||
| paternal - relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" | ||
| parental, maternal | ||
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Wiktionary 
- paternal (Adjective)
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. - paternal (Adjective)
Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father. - paternal (Adjective)
Received or inherited from one's father. - paternal (Adjective)
Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" murder of a son committed by his father.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- paternal (a.)
Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. - paternal (a.)
Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
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paternal
Of or pertaining to the father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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paternal
pa-tėr′nal, adj. fatherly: showing the disposition of a father: derived from a father: hereditary.—n. Pater′nalism.—adv. Pater′nally.—n. Pater′nity, state of being a father: fatherhood: the relation of a father to his children: origination or authorship. [Fr. paternel—Low L. paternalis—L. paternus—pater (Gr. patēr), a father.]
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