FAMILY MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family man mean? 

• FAMILY MAN (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MAN has 1 sense:

1. a man whose family is of major importance in his life

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man whose family is of major importance in his life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("family man" is a kind of...):

hubby; husband; married man (a married man; a woman's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

There was a good business to be done at Friar’s Oak from the passing traffic and the Sussex farmers, so that he soon became the richest of the villagers; and he came to church on a Sunday with his wife and his nephew, looking as respectable a family man as one would wish to see.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)