Paternal
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father). Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father. Received or inherited from one's father. Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).
Example sentence: I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
Parent
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To act as parent, to raise or rear.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child. (adoptive parent, foster parent)An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.The source or origin of something.A group from which another group is formed, or which completely controls a subordinate group. (parent company)The object from which a child or derived object is descended.
Example sentence: None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.