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n. A social system in which the mother is head of the family.

n. A family, community, or society based on this system or governed by women.

n. A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.

n. A system of government by females.

n. Government by a mother or by mothers; specifically, an order of society, as in certain primitive tribes, in which the mother in certain important respects, especially in line of descent and inheritance, takes precedence of the father; descent or inheritance in the female line.

n. a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

"More generally, a matriarchy is a society dominated by women."

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