matriarchy's Usage Examples:

The story centers on Stavia, daughter of the leader of Marthatown, as she grows from the age of ten to womanhood, discovering the secrets of the matriarchy.

Unfortunately, her appeals to the ' ancient matriarchy ' are ahistorical, and her analysis of the Ring itself simple.

Nevertheless the Local side of tribal life in time tended to overwhelm the Social and to organize the tribe irrespective of matriarchy, and inclined towards hereditary chieftainship.

Some tribes were endogamic, and there matriarchy was the rule, descent being traced through the female line.

Synonyms:

social organization, structure, social organisation, social system, social structure, matriarchate,

Antonyms:

natural object,