patriarchal
(adjective) characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
patriarchal
(adjective) relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
Source: WordNet® 3.1
patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)
Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.
• patriarchial
• patriarchic
• matriarchal
Source: Wiktionary
Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. patriarcal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.
3. (Ethnol.)
Definition: Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross.
– Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
