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

1 sense of patriarchy

Sense 1
patriarchy, patriarchate -- (a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male 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")