词汇 | matriarchal |
释义 | matriarchalWord family adjectivematriarchalnounmatriarchalismmatriarchatematriarchmatriarchy Womenma·tri·ar·chal /ˌmeɪtriˈɑːkl◂ $ -ˈɑːr-/ adjectiveadj 1 SSWWOMANruled or controlled by women 母系的,母权的 a matriarchal society 母系社会 2. SSWWOMANrelating to or typical of a matriarch 女家长的;女族长的 → patriarchal Examples from the Corpus matriarchal• A photograph taken in 1908 shows Belle, strongly matriarchal among her children.• Whether or not she was cooking, she regularly donned an apron as a symbolically matriarchal gesture that she was in charge of domestic arrangements.• Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular. |
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