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Definition of Matriarchate
1. Noun. A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.
Generic synonyms: Social Organisation, Social Organization, Social Structure, Social System, Structure
Derivative terms: Matriarchal
Definition of Matriarchate
1. n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.
Definition of Matriarchate
1. Noun. matriarchy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Matriarchate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matriarchate
Literary usage of Matriarchate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States by Rachel Foster Avery (1891)
"THE matriarchate, OR MOTHER-AGE. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. Without going into any
of the fine calculations of historians as to the centuries of human growth, ..."
2. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1907)
"The transition from the matriarchate to the patriarchate does not seem to have
any connection with wife capture, as Gumplowicz supposes,1 since the ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Cf. matriarchate. Literature: McLENNAN, Kinship in Ancient Greece and other essays
collected in Stud, in Ancient Hist.(ist and 2nd series) ; ROBERTSON SMITH ..."
4. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"... III THE IROQUOIS matriarchate The Iroquois speaking tribes of northwestern
New York and southeastern Canada, whose original provenience remains somewhat ..."
5. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"matriarchate. — Evolution towards the Maternal Family. The Prohibition of Incest.
Marriage by Groups. Polyandry. Among the Reddies. ..."
6. The Advance of Woman from the Earliest Times to the Present by Jane Johnstone Christie (1912)
"n EARLY SOCIETY AND THE matriarchate THE human being, emerging by imperceptible
degrees, from the world below him, embodied in himself, the characteristics ..."
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