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Patricide

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of murdering one's father.

n. One who murders one's father.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Murder of one's father.

n. A murderer of one's father.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The murderer of his father.

n. The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A murderer of his father.

n. The murde of a father.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a person who murders their father

n. the murder of your father

Word Usage

"Here in Confucian Korea, where in a classroom gasps of horror are heard when I lead university students to figure out what the word "patricide" means, the idea that adult children have an "obligation to care for elderly parents" is simply a given, although it is sometimes transgressed."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

parricide

Cross Reference

genocide homicide regicide matricide uxoricide

Variant

parricide

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

homicide

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cognation filicide daughte parricide matricide