What does matriarch mean?
Definitions for matriarch
ˈmeɪ triˌɑrkma·tri·arch
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Princeton's WordNet
matriarch, materfamiliasnoun
a female head of a family or tribe
matriarchnoun
a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons)
GCIDE
matriarchnoun
A woman who dominates or is the most important member of a group or organization; in businesses, often the founder or owner of the largest interest.
matriarchnoun
A venerated old woman.
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matriarchnoun
A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
matriarchnoun
A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
Etymology: From Latin mater (meaning mother) + -arch.
Wikipedia
matriarch
Matriarchy is a social system in which women hold the primary power positions in roles of authority. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege and control of property. While those definitions apply in general English, definitions specific to anthropology and feminism differ in some respects. Matriarchies may also be confused with matrilineal, matrilocal, and matrifocal societies. While there are those who may consider any non-patriarchal system to be matriarchal, most academics exclude those systems from matriarchies as strictly defined.
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matriarch
A matriarch is a woman who is the head of a family, group, or society, often exerting authority or influence over it. She is usually the oldest or most respected female figure and may possess leadership attributes such as wisdom or strength.
Webster Dictionary
Matriarchnoun
the mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right
Etymology: [L. mater mother + -arch.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of matriarch in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of matriarch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of matriarch in a Sentence
Once they sell the necklaces, they give the money to the village's matriarch, who then allocates the amount for food to each family based on the number of children per homestead, some of that money is also set aside to go toward education, especially for the young girls.
She taught Johnson Johnson to use talcum powder. Everybody in Johnson Johnson family used it, she was the matriarch of this family. She was my glue. There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss my grandmother.
We need to take a cohesive family group, right from the oldest matriarch down to the smallest baby.
I am proud of it now, but at the time I certainly didn’t know it was going to be that big of a deal, we just saw it as an opportunity to promote the current show. The result was very positive, so I did it again. I honestly can’t offer a comment on any others who have participated since then… I never had time to watch. [But] those who are tapped to do the halftime show are very lucky and part of a very exclusive club… which I suppose makes me the matriarch.
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- الأم الحاكمةArabic
- MatriarchinGerman
- patriarkinoEsperanto
- matriarcaSpanish
- matriarkkaFinnish
- ættarmóðirFaroese
- matriarcheFrench
- àrd-mhàthairScottish Gaelic
- matriarkaHungarian
- matriarkIndonesian
- matronaItalian
- 女家長Japanese
- aartsmoeder, matriarchDutch
- matriarcaPortuguese
- родоначальницаRussian
- matriarkSwedish
- شادیUrdu
- matriarchYiddish
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