matriarch
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin māter (“mother”) + + -arch.
Noun [edit]
matriarch (plural matriarchs)
- A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
- A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
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Translations [edit]
a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group
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Dutch [edit]
Noun [edit]
matriarch f (plural matriarchen, diminutive matriarchje, masculine patriarch)
- matriarch
