NOUN | group | patriarchy, patriarchate | 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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Sounds | pey'triyaa.rkiy | |
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Rhymes | achy ... yucky: 142 rhymes with kiy... |
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 | |
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 |
Spanish | patriarcado | |
Catalan | patriarcat | |
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 |
patriarchic | (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line |
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