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matresfamilias

matresfamilias is the plural of materfamilias.

Meaning of materfamilias

Noun

materfamilias (plural materfamiliases or matresfamilias)

  1. The female head of a household.
    • The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion.1903, Luigi Villari, Italian Life in Town and Country, pages 110–111
    Synonyms:
    matriarch

Questions about matresfamilias

What is matresfamilias the plural of?
Matresfamilias is the plural of materfamilias.

Words near matresfamilias in the dictionary

  1. matrep
  2. matres
  3. matres lectionis
  4. matrescence
  5. matrescent
  6. matresfamilias
  7. matreshka
  8. matreshkas
  9. matreshki
  10. matress
  11. matresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matresfamilias (page history and authors); materfamilias (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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