matriarchic

1. 1.

   (of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line

   Similarmatriarchal

Questions about matriarchic

What does matriarchic mean?

matriarchic means "(of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line".

How many syllables are in matriarchic?

matriarchic has 4 syllables and divides as ma-tri-ar-chic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is matriarchic a common word?

matriarchic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.