matriarchy

1. 1.

   a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

   Synonymsmatriarchate

   Broadersocial organization

Other forms of matriarchy

plural

matriarchies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about matriarchy

What does matriarchy mean?

matriarchy means "a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line".

How many syllables are in matriarchy?

matriarchy has 4 syllables: ma-tri-ar-chy. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪtɹiˌɑɹki/.

What is another word for matriarchy?

Close synonyms include matriarchate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is matriarchy a common word?

matriarchy 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.

What rhymes with matriarchy?

2 words rhyme with matriarchy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.