Matriarchy

['meɪtrɪɑːkɪ] or ['metrɪɑrki]

解释:

(noun.) 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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解释:

n. government by a mother or by mothers esp. a primitive order of society existing in many Indian tribes in which the mother takes precedence of the father in tracing line of descent and in inheritance: descent in the female line.—ns. Mā′triarch a woman in whom matriarchy rests: a patriarch's wife.—adj. Matriar′chal.—ns. Matriar′chalism the character of possessing matriarchal customs; Matriar′chate the position of a matriarch.

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