PATRIARCHATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does patriarchate mean? • PATRIARCHATE (noun)
The noun PATRIARCHATE has 2 senses:
1. the jurisdiction of a patriarch
2. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Familiarity information: PATRIARCHATE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PATRIARCHATE (noun)
Meaning:
The jurisdiction of a patriarch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("patriarchate" is a kind of...):
jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)
Meaning:
A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
patriarchy; patriarchate
Hypernyms ("patriarchate" is a kind of...):
social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)
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