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# paternally

«paternally» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a fatherly way: kind, caring or protective, like a father** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (paternally)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a fatherly way: kind, caring or protective, like a father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#m1)

2) On the father's side of a family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a character may speak paternally to a younger one; Badger acts paternally to Toad and Mole. In family trees, «paternally» means through the father.

### examples

- Badger spoke paternally to the young animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x1)
- He smiled paternally at the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x2)
- She is related to them paternally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x3)
- The coach put his arm paternally round the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x4)
- The old Rat looked paternally at the Mole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x5)
- Paternally, her family came from Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/#x6)

### note

Opposite: maternally (mother's side). From «paternal».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paternally» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paternally/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.