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noun, plural ma·tri·ar·chies.
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.
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Matriarchy
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example Sentences
- They create a matriarchy that sustains an off-kilter patriarch.
- But she was right that the new matriarchy would not survive her.
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matriarchy [(may-tree-ahr-kee)]A family or society in which authority is held by females, through whom descent and inheritance are traced. More generally, a matriarchy is a society dominated by women. (See also matrilineal, patriarchy, and patrilineal.)
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