Definition of "adoptive father" [adoptive father]

• A man who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological father. (noun)

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• "And with care, the family savings would stretch to teacher-training college, and the boy would teach others, not carry loads like his adoptive father or scrub floors and iron shirts like his mother."
• "“You are Caesar’s equal,” he said slowly, so dazed that he forgot to call his adoptive father Divus Julius."