Converse of object

• play: While the effort is commendable, and the actress playing the overbearing matriarch is especially good, most of the acting is unconvincing.

Converse of subject

• lead: In these films cameraman Martyn Colbeck and I followed the lives of one family of elephants led by the distinguished matriarch Echo.

• dominate: The picture painted by these three witnesses was of a home dominated by the matriarch, Mrs Joan Cave.

Adjective modifier

• old: Which indeed is just what my beloved old matriarch was doing.

• elderly: King's Head Theater Spring 2003 An elderly Fijian matriarch awakens in the small hours in her home in a New Zealand suburb.

• feisty: Although we were higher than them, the feisty matriarch raised her trunk and flapped her ears at us in irritation.

• convincing: Lynn Farleigh's convincing matriarch, however, towers over the all too meek and still daughters.

• dead: For this study they also took digital photographs, automatically dated and timed, to record visits of elephants to the dead matriarch.

Modifies a noun

• elaine: Employer merged with forms of various matriarch elaine who solve up to.

Noun used with modifier

• family: It is believed that the southwest is the powerful Yin sector, which benefits the family matriarch.

Preposition: of

• family: Ena Baxter, the matriarch of the family, has starred in television commercials.