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Matriarch   Listen
noun
matriarch  n.  
1.
The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
2.
A woman who dominates or is the most important member of a group or organization; in businesses, often the founder or owner of the largest interest.
3.
A venerated old woman.





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"Matriarch" Quotes from Famous Books



... about Inger Gyldenloeve, he was but little acquainted with the particulars of her history. He conceived her, as he found her in the incomplete chronicles he consulted, as a Matriarch, a wonderful and heroic elderly woman around whom all the hopes of an embittered patriotism were legitimately centred. Unfortunately, "the progress of knowledge," as Hazlitt would say, exposed the falsity of this conception. A closer inspection of the documents, ...
— Henrik Ibsen • Edmund Gosse


Words linked to "Matriarch" :   head of household, adult female, materfamilias, woman


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