“matriarchy”的英文意思

单词

matriarchy

释义

matriarchy|ˈmeɪtrɪɑːkɪ|
[f. matriarch, after patriarchy.]
That form of social organization in which the mother, and not the father, is the head of the family, and in which descent and relationship are reckoned through mothers and not through fathers.
1885Athenæum 21 Mar. 379/3 Mr. J. W. Redhouse made a few remarks with reference to a paper he has prepared for the Journal of the Society..‘On Matriarchy, or Mother Right’.1892Gomme Ethnology in Folklore 131 The principle of matriarchy is more primitive than that of patriarchy.

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