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Matriarch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A woman who rules a family, clan, or tribe.

n. A woman who dominates a group or an activity.

n. A highly respected woman who is a mother.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.

n. A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

n. A woman who dominates or is the most important member of a group or organization; in businesses, often the founder or owner of the largest interest.

n. A venerated old woman.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The wife of a patriarch.

n. A woman who holds (to some extent or in some respect) in a family or tribe a position analogous to that of a patriarch. See matriarchy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons)

n. a female head of a family or tribe

Word Usage

"But the matriarch is the glue that binds the entire family together and the inheritor of the late Jindals political constituency."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

woman adult female head of household

Cross Reference

patriarch

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound