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matriarch

Amatriarch is a woman who is a head of a family, or is a powerful mother figure. (noun)

Rose Kennedy was an example of amatriarch.

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See matriarch in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See matriarch in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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