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Feb 16, 2012
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ma•tri•ar•chate



Pronunciation: (mā'trē-är"kit, -kāt), [key]
—n.
1. a matriarchal system or community.
2. a social order formerly believed to have preceded patriarchal tribal society in the early period of human communal life, embodying rule by the mothers, or by all adult women.

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