MATRIARCHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matriarchate mean? 

• MATRIARCHATE (noun)
  The noun MATRIARCHATE has 1 sense:

1. a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

  Familiarity information: MATRIARCHATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATRIARCHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

matriarchate; matriarchy

Hypernyms ("matriarchate" is a kind of...):

social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)