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单词 matrilineal
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Definition of matrilineal in English:

matrilineal

adjective ˌmatrɪˈlɪnɪəl
  • Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.

    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.

Derivatives

  • matrilineally

  • adverb
    • 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.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Latin mater, matr- 'mother' + lineal.

Rhymes

finial, lineal, patrilineal
 
 

Definition of matrilineal in US English:

matrilineal

adjective
  • Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.

    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.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Latin mater, matr- ‘mother’ + lineal.

 
 
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