housefather

Etymology

Compound of house + father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.

noun

  1. The father of a family; the male head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.
  2. A man in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.