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

1 sense of matriarchate

Sense 1
matriarchy, matriarchate -- (a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line)
       => 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; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family")