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Definition of matrilineal in English: matrilinealadjective ˌmatrɪˈlɪnɪəl Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. 母系的；母方的 a society founded on the matrilineal kinship principle Example sentencesExamples - In addition, property passes from one generation to the next based on matrilineal ties.
- In some cultures a village consists of matrilineal kin and their dependents.
- The Akan domestic arrangements are based on matrilineal principles.
- The fact that all livestock are inherited along the matrilineal line is exceptional.
- Most kin groups tend to be patrilineal and patrilocal, although there are also large categories of matrilineal kin who share rights to land and to local religious and political offices.
- Many of Indonesia's ethnic groups have strong kinship groupings based upon patrilineal, matrilineal, or bilateral descent.
- Their kinship organization is based on extended matrilineal groups, in which women have a high status.
- The legend continues that in time the kinship system changed from a matrilineal to a patrilineal one (tracing descent through the male line).
- Among matrilineal societies, respect for one's mother's brother is marked by the use of polite language and physical avoidance on formal occasions.
- A kinship system based on matrilineal clans was the source of Cherokee identity and the sinew of society.
- Pueblo culture is matrilineal and matrilocal.
- In matrilineal ethnic groups such as the Wolof, the mother's brother is sent on behalf of the groom to ask for the bride's hand.
- He also recognizes matrilineal kin groups, linear dominance rank orders, and behaves as if he recognizes his own unique place within them.
- Presently, matrilineal kinship occupies merely a shadowy and at times nostalgic part of collective Keralite memory.
- Each settlement was composed of a small number of households headed by men belonging to a matrilineal kinship unit called a likola.
- Some clans were matrilineal, and children were affiliated with their mother's clan.
- The important kin groups are patrilineal and matrilineal lineages and clans.
- The social rank of females is not stable before and during adolescent development, but reproductive females assume a higher matrilineal rank than their older sisters.
- They are a matrilineal group (tracing descent through the mother's line).
- Kinship and descent may have been organized around matrilineal clans, a common pattern in Micronesia.
Derivativesadverb Perhaps it will turn out that timber rattlesnakes organize themselves matrilineally - in other words, that social groups form along the maternal line, with extensive contact among related individuals across generations. Example sentencesExamples - Family relations are traced back equally both matrilineally and patrilineally, and active kin groups often extend to the great-grandparents.
- The most important kin grouping is the family, which is defined both matrilineally and patrilineally.
- Land rights pass patrilineally or matrilineally to surviving members of kin groups.
- The matrilineal moieties, for example, articulate the matrilineally transmitted ‘flesh’ or totems.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Latin mater, matr- 'mother' + lineal. Rhymesfinial, lineal, patrilineal Definition of matrilineal in US English: matrilinealadjective Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. 母系的；母方的 a society founded on the matrilineal kinship principle Example sentencesExamples - Some clans were matrilineal, and children were affiliated with their mother's clan.
- The Akan domestic arrangements are based on matrilineal principles.
- In addition, property passes from one generation to the next based on matrilineal ties.
- Presently, matrilineal kinship occupies merely a shadowy and at times nostalgic part of collective Keralite memory.
- Kinship and descent may have been organized around matrilineal clans, a common pattern in Micronesia.
- They are a matrilineal group (tracing descent through the mother's line).
- Among matrilineal societies, respect for one's mother's brother is marked by the use of polite language and physical avoidance on formal occasions.
- Pueblo culture is matrilineal and matrilocal.
- The social rank of females is not stable before and during adolescent development, but reproductive females assume a higher matrilineal rank than their older sisters.
- The fact that all livestock are inherited along the matrilineal line is exceptional.
- He also recognizes matrilineal kin groups, linear dominance rank orders, and behaves as if he recognizes his own unique place within them.
- In some cultures a village consists of matrilineal kin and their dependents.
- The legend continues that in time the kinship system changed from a matrilineal to a patrilineal one (tracing descent through the male line).
- Most kin groups tend to be patrilineal and patrilocal, although there are also large categories of matrilineal kin who share rights to land and to local religious and political offices.
- The important kin groups are patrilineal and matrilineal lineages and clans.
- Many of Indonesia's ethnic groups have strong kinship groupings based upon patrilineal, matrilineal, or bilateral descent.
- A kinship system based on matrilineal clans was the source of Cherokee identity and the sinew of society.
- In matrilineal ethnic groups such as the Wolof, the mother's brother is sent on behalf of the groom to ask for the bride's hand.
- Their kinship organization is based on extended matrilineal groups, in which women have a high status.
- Each settlement was composed of a small number of households headed by men belonging to a matrilineal kinship unit called a likola.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Latin mater, matr- ‘mother’ + lineal. |