Definition of matriarchal
: of, relating to, or being a matriarch or matriarchy
a matriarchal society Johnnie Angelia King … plays a very different matriarchal figure here, imbuing hard-working Faye with passion …— Larry T. Collins As a Filipino-American, Lirio Marcelo was steeped in a matriarchal culture where there was no shortage of female role models in corporate and government realms.— Lydia Dishman
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The first known use of matriarchal was in 1780
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