father figure

father figure

n.

An older man, often one in a position of power or influence, who elicits the emotions usually reserved for a father.

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father figure - a man who takes over all the functions of the real father father surrogate foster father, foster-father - a man who is a foster parent adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" stepfather - the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage