Definition of gynaecocracy in English:
gynaecocracy
(US gynecocracy)
noun dʒɡʌɪnɪˈkɒkrəsiˌɡʌɪnɪˈkɒkrəsiˌɡaɪnəˈkɑkrəsi
another term for gynarchy
Example sentencesExamples
- This situation could change and revert dramatically to the stage of gynaecocracy if women resorted to promiscuity and had children whose fathers could not be identified.
- Mother rights should not be confused with gynaecocracy.
- ‘The most obvious reason for rewriting POPE JOAN (because of which I was thinking to entitle my novel: THE MAN WHO WAS A WOMAN) has to do with the female sex and more precisely with gynaecocracy, the matriarchy that rises in our days.’
- But their real purpose is to locate the submerged city of Vineta, ‘offshore from the mouth of the Peene,’ once ruled by a gynecocracy.
- My mother used to take me to work with her, at family planning clinics which were run as a gynaecocracy.
Definition of gynecocracy in US English:
gynecocracy
(British gynaecocracy)
nounˌɡaɪnəˈkɑkrəsiˌɡīnəˈkäkrəsē
another term for gynarchy
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The most obvious reason for rewriting POPE JOAN (because of which I was thinking to entitle my novel: THE MAN WHO WAS A WOMAN) has to do with the female sex and more precisely with gynaecocracy, the matriarchy that rises in our days.’
- But their real purpose is to locate the submerged city of Vineta, ‘offshore from the mouth of the Peene,’ once ruled by a gynecocracy.
- My mother used to take me to work with her, at family planning clinics which were run as a gynaecocracy.
- Mother rights should not be confused with gynaecocracy.
- This situation could change and revert dramatically to the stage of gynaecocracy if women resorted to promiscuity and had children whose fathers could not be identified.