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n. 1 a man who take care of a child when one or more of the parents are unavailable (see also surrogate parent, foster parents) 2 a man who acts as a father figure to a child usually when a father is not in the picture
Usage examples of "surrogate father".
Bernard Godwin, the Mall's eminence grise, has been our surrogate father, and like disputatious children we've been yelling ''Choose me!
Your surrogate father is asking you to save your surrogate brother.
It all made perfect sense to the stunned young priest He found himself hating the Edificant Library, hating Dean Thobicus, the old liar, and hating even Headmaster Avery Schell, the man who had served as his surrogate father for so many years.
He found himself hating the Edificant Library, hating Dean Thobicus, the old liar, and hating even Headmaster Avery Schell, the man who had served as his surrogate father for so many years.
He sees a surrogate father and the son whom he will unofficially adopt, sees two lives raised from despair by the complete commitment of each to the other, sees the years ahead of them, filled with the joy that is born of selfless love but marked also by the anguishes of life that in the end only love can heal.
He could never remember the nightmare that had gripped him, but Bliss was certain that his guilt at having killed his surrogate father was the source.
And though it had been the honorable thing to do, though Nangi had had no choice but to comply with his sempai's wishes, still he was ashen as he stared at the bloody blade, his friend and surrogate father's head on the tatami.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father-uncle, say better.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father—.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father.
There lay Headmaster Avery, Cad-derly's mentor, his surrogate father, spread across one of the room's small circular tables, his chest opened wide.
Whenever he talked to her like that, Kerry felt the remembered warmth of the days when her father was alive and felt a rush of gratitude that Jonathan in so many ways had been a surrogate father to her.