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matriarch
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A matriarch or clan-mother or 'chief' is a mother, or other female person in a family who autocratically rules a clan or kinship. Matriarch may also refer to: Matriarch (novel) , the fourth book in the Wess'Har science fiction book series written by Karen ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mother who heads a family or tribe," c.1600, from matri- + -arch , abstracted from patriarch .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a female head of a family or tribe [syn: materfamilias ] a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group. 2 # The dominant female in a family group of elephants 3 A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
Usage examples of matriarch.
Armed with poison-tipped spears, and using the claws of their hands and feet, they attacked the matriarch as allosaurs once had, striking and retreating.
Steamed, unspiced bedjies were unspeakably bland, but the Ryn matriarchs had taken to hoarding their herbs.
The Coman Matriarch whipped about, skirt belling, to glare at the group huddled around the fire-pit in the middle of the great hall.
The matriarch was long and gold and hippocampine, with that pretty muzzle and tufted mane that Shan was beginning to recognize as highly individual features.
All her life, Silverhair had told Icebones she would one day be a Matriarch.
It was the call of a moeritherium, the matriarch of a migrant herd, walking slowly up from the south.
The matriarchs would not send enough enforcers after him to allow them the luxury of a multipronged attack.
Armed with poison-tipped spears, and using the claws of their hands and feet, they attacked the matriarch as allosaurs once had, striking and retreating.
The path they take leads them to a homicidal matriarch, the cruelest duke in history, monsters both visible and invisible, men more deadly than monsters, treacherous labyrinths, pleading ghosts whose pleas are incomprehensible, and the gradual realization that before they can accomplish their task they must complete another one: Solve a baffling mystery that occurred a thousand years before they were born.
The old matriarch trumpeted again, joined now by a chorus of blaring screams as the shaggy, reddish-brown beasts, young and old, picked up speed and stampeded toward an unknown but far greater danger.
The matriarch of all the gods, instituted for a millennium here, beneath the cliffs off which Aesop threw himself to his death.
The crew knew the broad detail, and so did the colonists of Constantine who gave her asylum, and it would only be a matter of time before the matriarchs of Wess'ej found out what Aras had done to save her.
But she had expected a little more breathing space before the matriarchs discovered what Aras had done to her.
Later, as he broods on the injustice of life and death, Simon inadverTO GREEN ANGEL TOWER XIX tently awakens the Sitha mirror Jiriki had given him as a summoning charm, and travels on the Dream Road to en counter first the Sitha matriarch Amerasu, then the terri ble Nom Queen Utuk'ku.
Could it really be that she had somehow slept away the generations, as calf grew to mother and Matriarch and fell away into death, over and over—as her mother's calves grew to a mighty horde that covered this world—while she, daughter of their first ancestor, had stayed young and childless?