matriarchal
adjEtymology
From matriarch + -al.
- derived from *h₂ergʰ-✻
- derived from -άρχης
- derived from māter
- derived from matriarche
Definitions
Governed by (or as if by) a matriarch.
Governed by females, rather than by males.
The neighborhood
- synonymmatriarchial
- synonymmatriarchic
- neighbormater
- neighbormatriarch
- neighbormatriarchate
- neighbormatriarchy
- neighbormatrist
- neighbormatristic
- neighbormatristically
- neighbormatristics
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA