Definitions for matriarchies

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matriarchies ma·tri·ar·chy

Spelling: [mey-tree-ahr-kee]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ triˌɑr ki/

Matriarchies is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1322 anagrams from letters in matriarchies (aacehiimrrst).

Definitions for matriarchies

noun

1. a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
2. a form of social organization in which the mother is head of the family, and in which descent is reckoned in the female line, the children belonging to the mother's clan; matriarchal system.

Origin of matriarchies

First recorded in 1880-85; matri- + -archy

Examples for matriarchies

This shows that matriarchy must have been in force in Camboja.

It is a vast conspiracy that is working tirelessly to build a matriarchy to enslave men.

Descent was matrilinear, and a society known as matriarchy existed, as contrasted to the later patriarchy.

Thrayxite is a matriarchy, something we of Ihelos never suspected.

At the death of the father his own children were disinherited, in the matriarchy.

MacLennan maintains the existence of matriarchy in promiscuity, but this is inadmissible.

"You are prisoners of the matriarchy of Thrayx," the officer called Daleb said.

With the social state of matriarchy, the mother cults developed.

A return to matriarchy at the present time would be distinctly and emphatically and essentially retrograde in every particular.

He touched a hundred subjects; he developed a theory of matriarchy.