Definitions for matriarchy

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matriarchy ma·tri·ar·chy

Spelling: [mey-tree-ahr-kee]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ triˌɑr ki/

Matriarchy is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in matriarchy (aachimrrty).

Definitions for matriarchy

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 matriarchy

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

Examples for matriarchy

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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