[かふちょうせい, kafuchousei] (n) patriarchal authority [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Patriarchal \Pa`tri*ar"chal\, a. [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.
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2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
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About whose patriarchal knee
Late the little children clung. --Tennyson.
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3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government
in which the head of the family exercises authority over
all its generations.
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{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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
patriarchal
adj 1: characteristic of a form of social organization in which
the male is the family head and title is traced through
the male line [ant: {matriarchal}]
2: relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher
in rank
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
