PATRIARCHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patriarchate mean? 

• PATRIARCHATE (noun)
  The noun PATRIARCHATE has 2 senses:

1. the jurisdiction of a patriarch

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

  Familiarity information: PATRIARCHATE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATRIARCHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The jurisdiction of a patriarch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

patriarchate; patriarchy

Hypernyms ("patriarchate" 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)