All English words - page 3153

Meanings of Matriculations:

noun

The action of matriculating at a college or university.

Usage examples:

Matriculation requirements

Meanings of Matriculator:

noun

A person who matriculates; a matriculant.

Meanings of Matrilateral:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating a relationship (especially a marriage between cousins) in which a mother and one of her siblings or other relatives are both involved as parents.

Meanings of Matriline:

noun

A matrilineal line of descent.

Meanings of Matrilineage:

noun

Matrilineal lineage or descent.

Meanings of Matrilineal:

adjective

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

Usage examples:

A society founded on the matrilineal kinship principle

Meanings of Matrilinear:

adjective

Matrilineal.

Meanings of Matrilinies:

noun

The observance of matrilineal descent and kinship.

Meanings of Matriliny:

noun

The observance of matrilineal descent and kinship.

Meanings of Matrilocal:

adjective

Of or denoting a custom in marriage whereby the husband goes to live with the wife's community.

Usage examples:

In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence amon…

Meanings of Matrimonial:

adjective

Relating to marriage or married people.

Usage examples:

The matrimonial home

Meanings of Matrimony:

noun

The state of being married; marriage.

Usage examples:

The joys of matrimony

Meanings of Matriotism:

noun

Love for one's country, university, or other institution regarded in the role of a mother.

Meanings of Matrix:

noun

The cultural, social, or political environment in which something develops.

Usage examples:

Oxbridge was the matrix of the ideology

Meanings of Matrixes:

noun

The cultural, social, or political environment in which something develops.

Usage examples:

Oxbridge was the matrix of the ideology

Plural of matrix specialized

Meanings of Matrixing:

noun

The action of combining signals in different proportions, so as to obtain one or more linear combinations.

Meanings of Matroclinous:

adjective

Resembling the female parent more closely than the male; possessing or exhibiting a tendency to inherit a character or characters from the mother only.

Meanings of Matrocliny:

noun

Matroclinous inheritance.

Meanings of Matroid:

noun

A mathematical entity consisting of a finite set e together with a collection ℐ of subsets of e such that (i) the empty set is a member of ℐ, (ii) any subset of a member of ℐ is also a member of ℐ, and (iii) if two subsets i₁ and i₂ are in ℐ, where the cardinality of i₁ is less than that of i₂, then there exists an element e that is in i₂ but not i₁ such that the union of i₁ with { e } is also an element of ℐ.

Meanings of Matron:

noun

A woman in charge of domestic and medical arrangements at a boarding school or other institution.

Usage examples:

She initiated training for matrons of residential homes

Meanings of Matronage:

noun

The condition of being a matron; matronly behaviour; matronhood.

Meanings of Matronal:

adjective

Resembling a matron.

Meanings of Matronalia:

noun

A roman festival in honour of the goddess juno, on which day husbands traditionally gave presents to their wives.

Meanings of Matronize:

verb

Of a woman: to patronize.

Meanings of Matronized:

verb

Of a woman: to patronize.