MATRIARCH Antonyms
Definition of MATRIARCH
Best Opposite Words For MATRIARCH
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| patriarch | nounn | |||||||
noun • title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) • the male head of family or tribe • any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race • a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | ||||||||
| father | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) • `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military • the founder of a family • (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization • a person who founds or establishes some institution • the head of an organized crime family verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
| male | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
adjective • being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation noun • an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) • the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands • a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies adjective satellite • characteristic of a man • for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | ||||||||
| man | nounn | |||||||
noun • one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea • an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) • someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force • the generic use of the word to refer to any human being • any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage • a male subordinate • an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) • a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer • a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman • game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games • all of the living human inhabitants of the earth verb • take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place • provide with workers | ||||||||
| paterfamilias | nounn | |||||||
noun • the male head of family or tribe | ||||||||
