matriarchal in English

adjective

[ma·tri·ar·chal || ‚meɪtrɪ'ɑrkl /'ɑːkl]

of a system in which the mother is the dominant figure or leade

Use "matriarchal" in a sentence

1. Certain tribes adhere to matriarchal customs.

2. The animals live in matriarchal groups.

3. The primitive commune is a matriarchal clan society.

4. Antonyms for Androcentric include gynocentric, feminist and matriarchal

5. Moreover , the matrilineal system was not a matriarchal system.

6. This is a typical reflection of the matriarchal system.

7. Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular.

8. A photograph taken in 1908 shows Belle, strongly matriarchal among her children.

9. These great embody the women - oriented form of a matriarchal society in sight.

10. Avunculate and fosterage are no arguments for a supposed matrilineal or matriarchal state

11. A largely matriarchal craftworld, Iybraesil fosters many Howling Banshee shrines and female Autarchs.

12. Moreover, this archetype reflects the history that the paternal society replaced the matriarchal society.

13. A decade has passed, a matriarchal society is taking shape in the family.

14. The theory of matriarchal authority can not be derived from the matrilineal system.

15. The last of the grass - grazing primates, Ethiopia's gelada monkeys live in matriarchal societies.

16. In this matriarchal city, males had a subservient role, and most answered to the whimsy females.

17. The finds from these burial grounds point to the existence of a prosperous matriarchal society.

18. Bonobos are peaceful in comparably large groups, and females hold high status in Bonobos' matriarchal society

19. Nu Wa, the ancient Chinese are matriarchal society, a well - known tribal leaders hope the clan.

20. He was raised in a matriarchal family and was always closer to his mother than his father.

21. Shepherd has previously described herself as "a goddess-worshipping Christian pagan Buddhist"; also known as a matriarchal religion.

22. The pivotal characters of this show are strong, feisty women, living together in an all-female matriarchal family.

23. I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.

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25. It depicts a post-apocalyptic world (which Boorman says, in the audio commentary, is matriarchal) where barbarians (the "Brutals

26. As a social reflex of these two fundamental conceptions, characterized by the preeminence of the female (demetric or Aphroditic) principle, or of the male principle we have the gynaecocratic or the androcratic type of society; a duality of which, however, the matriarchal or the patriarchal societies are only the extreme cases, for a