Words Like MATRIARCHY

We have put together a list of words that are similar to MATRIARCHY.

2 Alternative Words Similar to matriarchy

1 Matriarchate Noun Synonym Words Like Matriarchate

2 Structure Noun Synonym Words Like Structure

4 definitions of matriarchy

1 A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.

2 A system of government by females.

3 Government by a mother or by mothers; specifically, an order of society, as in certain primitive tribes, in which the mother in certain important respects, especially in line of descent and inheritance, takes precedence of the father; descent or inheritance in the female line.

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

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