Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is the head of a household or the mother of a family.
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- noun The female head of a
household
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female head of a family or tribe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And thank you for taking time from your busy days to let us know. materfamilias |
Jack 2009
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This evening, the spirits seem a little more accurate, particularly when they alight on a group of three Indian women, two older and one younger, who seem thrilled with information from their materfamilias; her grand-daughter is barely able to contain her excitement, even when she's being told to tidy her bedroom.
Among the psychics 2011
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But for me, you did manage to capture all of that in one delightful anecdote. materfamilias |
boss 2008
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So concentrate your energies on your family and on that novel and blog only when you want to — RSS can let us know when that is. materfamilias |
Q&A #2 2008
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Tiberius needed people to accept Livia as both kingmaker and Roman materfamilias par excellence.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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I look forward to reading, first, Petite and someday, your novel. materfamilias |
post mortem 2008
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As a ninety-two-year-old materfamilias, Alice had one chief regret: “I took Maryann and Amy away from the farm, where they were happy as little girls, and exposed them to a more complicated world.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Because the materfamilias - for all her right-on, knit-your-own-lentils, manky-haired bullshit - was, once you scratched the surface, the most hyper-competitive pushy bitch of a mother it's humanly possible to imagine.
Woodcraft Folk Memories juliette 2009
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Because the materfamilias - for all her right-on, knit-your-own-lentils, manky-haired bullshit - was, once you scratched the surface, the most hyper-competitive pushy bitch of a mother it's humanly possible to imagine.
Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009
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Not that you need more advertising. materfamilias |
anniversaries 2007
qms commented on the word materfamilias
The votes had been willy nilly cast
Electing our materfamilias.
Electoral flunkies
(Those mischievous monkeys)
Appointed instead a male silly ass.
May 14, 2017