Meaning | A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. |
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Synonym | patriarchate |
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Broader | social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure | The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships |
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Spanish | patriarcado |
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Catalan | patriarcat |
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Adjectives | patriarchal | characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line |
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patriarchic | (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line |