matriarchate

English Thesaurus

1. a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line (noun.group)

hypernym	:	social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure,
definition	:	the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships (noun.group)

derivation	:	matriarchal,
definition	:	characteristic of a matriarchy (adj.all)

derivation	:	matriarchal,
definition	:	characteristic of a matriarchy (adj.all)