单词	matriarch
释义	matriarchma‧tri‧arch /ˈmeɪtriɑːk $ -ɑːrk/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmatriarch Origin: 1600-1700 matri- + -arch (as in patriarch) Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Bossy matriarch Pauline Faaahhhhler finds out she's the real grandma of Sonia's baby and sticks her nose right in. I learned my sense of quality and performance from my grandmother, the matriarch of the family. She had been the rock of our whole family, the matriarch, a marvellous, marvellous woman. This painting speaks with burning honesty of man's love, and of his fear, of the overpowering matriarch. We then watched it buttonhole every munching matriarch in the flock, crying, ` Did you see? Yet it seems unlikely that a return to the matriarch ate is either possible or the way ahead. word sets WORD SETS► Women emancipated, adjectivefeminism, nounfeminist, nounhen party, nounmatriarch, nounmatriarchal, adjectivematriarchy, nounsisterhood, nounsorority, nounwell-woman, adjectivewomen's lib, noun a woman, especially an older woman, who controls a family or a social group → patriarch
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