matriarchate

matriarchate
/may"tree ahr'kit, -kayt/, 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.
[1880-85; MATRIARCH + -ATE3]

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