Definition of "patriarchs" [patriarchs]

• Plural form of patriarch. (noun)

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• "Sydney Smith quoted the anonymous teacher who rebuked a careless student for reading the word patriarchs as partridges with the scathing comment, "You are making game of the patriarchs.""
• "&c. But the foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of"
• "Future successors to Gautama are known as patriarchs and they found different interpretations of his teachings, resulting in the various sects."