Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun materfamilias

1 sense of materfamilias

Sense 1
matriarch, materfamilias -- (a female head of a family or tribe)
       => woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")
       => head of household -- (the head of a household or family or tribe)