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PATRIARCHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does patriarchy mean?
• PATRIARCHY (noun)
The noun PATRIARCHY has 1 sense:
1. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Familiarity information: PATRIARCHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("patriarchy" 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)
Derivation:
patriarchal (characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line)
patriarchic ((of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line)
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