Matrician
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Matrician is a noun meaning A female patrician; an upper class matriarch.
Meaning
A female patrician; an upper class matriarch.
More Meanings
- (anthropology) A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor
- Upper class and matriarchal
- A mathematician who studies matrices
- Pertaining to matrices
Example Sentences
In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans.
However, the household was controlled by its senior women; because of the residence pattern, the men were unrelated outsiders who belonged to different matricians.
Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"
The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.
Word Forms
- matricians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include matrona, patrician, matron, matriarchate, patriarchess, matriarch.
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