Patricide

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  • noun. The act of murdering one's father.
  • noun. One who murders one's father.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A murderer of his father.
  • noun. The murde of a father.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The murderer of his father.
  • noun. The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Murder of one's father.
  • noun. A murderer of one's father.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who murders their father
  • noun. 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."
    cross-reference
    filicide  genocide  homicide  infanticide  matricide  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    parricide  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adulterer  blasphemer  cognation  daughte  filicide  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aborticide  fratricide  fungicide  genocide  germicide  
    variant
    parricide  
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