father figure

Because I don’t have a dad, he was also the closest thing I had to a father figure in my life.

That pledge broadened when he realized he wasn’t the only kid without a dad around, so he doubled-down and decided he’d also help anyone else who needed a father figure.

She belongs to the same political faction as Mori and has described him as a father figure in the past.

On the big screen, a head coach is typically part father figure, part disciplinarian extracting the utmost from his team.

And he was a mentor, close friend, and father figure to Rev. Al Sharpton.

Mad Men is very big on surrogate parents on the show, and Roger always viewed Bert as a surrogate father figure.

On Friday Night Lights, Coach Taylor is as much a father figure to the boys on the Dillon Panthers as he is their play caller.

"He was regarded by Cressida as a father figure," a friend of Miss Bonas told the Daily Beast.

So it was like meeting some sort of father figure, whose approval you always wanted.