matriarchal society

collocation in English

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matriarchal
adjective
uk
/ˌmeɪ.triˈɑː.kəl/us
/ˌmeɪ.triˈɑːr.kəl/
ruled or controlled by women ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofmatriarchalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As women live longer than men, the businesses will be increasingly concentrated into the hands of grandma—thematriarchalsociety.
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They also tend, perhaps, to have a somewhatmatriarchalsociety.
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Often in ourmatriarchalsocietythe wife keeps the car and the husband commutes by train.
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In my time there, it was chiefly amatriarchalsociety, because the man sometimes disappeared.
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Home of amatriarchalsocietyof warriors who dress in bright colours.
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Females are dominant over males, forming amatriarchalsociety.
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It lives in amatriarchalsocietywhere the females lead the group.
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Thus, geisha women live in a strictlymatriarchalsociety.
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For example, bonobo chimpanzee groups are known for low levels of aggression within a partiallymatriarchalsociety.
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Being amatriarchalsociety, only women could own land.
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This leads to a verymatriarchalsocietywith women holding all the power and men treated as cattle.
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It is amatriarchalsocietywith an unusually volatile gas.
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Some held amatriarchalsociety.
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It is almost like their devotion to the rites of brata of the most ancientmatriarchalsocietywhere forces are controlled for the good of society and the family.
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In patriarchal societies, such rights and privileges are granted to men over women; in matriarchal societies, the opposite holds true.
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