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Meanings of materfamilias in English

Portuguese
matriarca

A female head of a family or tribe.

matriarca
Synonyms
Examples for "matriarch"
Examples for "matriarch"
1
African elephants roam savannahs as herds of females, led by a matriarch.
BBC
2
The brown-skinned matriarch held on to her granddaughter's hand and squeezed tight.
A beautiful place to die
3
The rest of you, go with your so-called matriarch into the wilderness.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
4
Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria Holmes, the matriarch of the Holmes family.
The South African
5
That's where the South Carolina-born Sylvia Woods, owner and matriarch comes in.
Ebony
Usage of materfamilias in English
1
There is nothing to tell the materfamilias; and yet, at her first attempt, she fills the honey-pot to the requisite depth.
The Mason-Bees
2
Materfamilias came from Memphis quality, darling, and didn't let you forget it.
Bag of Bones
3
B. T.' and 'Materfamilias' will have all the real influence which their letters-excellentletters both of them-certainlydeserve.
Miscellanies
4
"The first time we ever travelled second-class in our lives," murmured Materfamilias.
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
5
"Evidently one of their heroes, my dear," said Paterfamilias to Materfamilias.
The Head of Kay's
6
Ponder the Fate that made me Spouse, Muse Materfamilias, and Household Divinity, instead of a field marshal under Frederick the Great.
The new yorker
Frequent collocations
Translations for materfamilias
Portuguese
matriarca
Materfamilias through the time