Matriarchal Definition

Matriarchal Sentence Examples

• The Social or matriarchal took precedence of the Local or patriarchal organization.

• The show focuses on the inner workings and dynamics of larger, working class families with a strong matriarchal character at the helm of each family.

• In her book on the subject published in 2003, Tina Hobin suggests that it evolved out of "fertility cults, religious rituals, magic and secular dances" designed to worship matriarchal deities.

• The first was matriarchal, inheritance being reckoned through the mother.

• Polygamy is general in upper Bagirmi, where some traces of a matriarchal stage of society linger, one small state being called Beled-el-Mra, "Women's Land," because its ruler is always a queen.