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Meaning of "patrifocal" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PATRIFOCAL

ˌpætrɪˈfəʊkəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PATRIFOCAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Patrifocal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PATRIFOCAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kinship terminology

Kinship terminology is the systems used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship. Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology - for example some languages distinguish between affinal and consanguine uncles, whereas others have only one word to refer to both a father and his brothers. Kinship terminologies include the terms of address used in different languages or communities for different relatives and the terms of reference used to identify the relationship of these relatives to ego or to each other.

Definition of patrifocal in the English dictionary

The definition of patrifocal in the dictionary is centred on a father or patriarch.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PATRIFOCAL

afocal · bifocal · confocal · epifocal · focal · hyperfocal · interlocal · local · matrifocal · multifocal · nonfocal · nonlocal · parfocal · patrilocal · socle · trifocal · univocal · varifocal · vocal · yokel

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PATRIFOCAL

patriate · patriation · patrician · patricianly · patriciate · patricidal · patricide · Patrick · patriclinous · patrico · patrifocality · patrilineage · patrilineal · patrilineally · patrilinear · patrilinearly · patriliny · patrilocal · patrilocally · patrimonial

WORDS THAT END LIKE PATRIFOCAL

equivocal · irreciprocal · multivocal · nonreciprocal · nonvocal · pedocal · reciprocal · semivocal · subvocal · unequivocal · unvocal · uxorilocal · virilocal

Synonyms and antonyms of patrifocal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «patrifocal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PATRIFOCAL

Find out the translation of patrifocal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of patrifocal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «patrifocal» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

patrifocal
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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patrifocal
570 millions of speakers
en

English

patrifocal
510 millions of speakers
hi

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patrifocal
380 millions of speakers
ar

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patrifocal
280 millions of speakers
ru

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patrifocal
278 millions of speakers
pt

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patrifocal
270 millions of speakers
bn

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patrifocal
260 millions of speakers
fr

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patrifocal
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Patrifocal
190 millions of speakers
de

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patrifocal
180 millions of speakers
ja

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patrifocal
130 millions of speakers
ko

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patrifocal
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Patrifocal
85 millions of speakers
vi

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patrifocal
80 millions of speakers
ta

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patrifocal
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Patrifocal
75 millions of speakers
tr

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patrifocal
70 millions of speakers
it

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patrifocal
65 millions of speakers
pl

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patrifocal
50 millions of speakers
uk

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patrifocal
40 millions of speakers
ro

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patrifocal
30 millions of speakers
el

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patrifocal
15 millions of speakers
af

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patrifocal
14 millions of speakers
sv

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patrifocal
10 millions of speakers
no

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patrifocal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of patrifocal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PATRIFOCAL»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of patrifocal
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «patrifocal».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about patrifocal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATRIFOCAL»

Discover the use of patrifocal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to patrifocal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to ...
For example, Boyd's analysis showed, among other things, that matrifocal households raised more staple root crops per consumer (including pigs) than did patrifocal households, and that patrifocal households (which had more pigs) planted ...
Allen W. Johnson, 1978
2
Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society
Other families experience emotional and marital problems. Indeed, new immigrants must pay a high price if they choose to lead this lifestyle. Patrifocal Families Patrifocal families are those headed by a male single parent— something relatively ...
Jennifer E. Lansford, Kirby D. Deater-Deckard, Marc H. Bornstein, 2009
3
The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social ...
Both patrifocal and ma- trifocal households come about because of the need for economic betterment. Relatively speaking, matrifocal households are more numerous than patrifocal ones. This is probably due to the fact that men are the ...
Bernard P. Wong, 2006
4
Juvenile Primates: Life History, Development and Behavior, ...
10. Growing. Up. in. a. Patrifocal. Society: Sex. Differences. in. the. Spatial. Relations. of. Immature. Muriquis. Fig. 10.2. Proportion of observations of independent juveniles and suhadults. KAREN B. STRIER The muriqui. or woolly spider ...
Michael E. Pereira, Lynn A. Fairbanks, 1993
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Social Values Among Young Adults: A Changing Scenario
This commonly accepted scenario arises from important differences between the class-dominant patrifocal family and the lower social class matrifocal family. The street children coming from matrifocal families are being judged by patrifocal ...
Man Singh Das, Vijay Kumar Gupta, 1995
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Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition
This extended family unit, commonly referred to as the "joint family," is male oriented in both its structure and associated beliefs and values; hence, my use of the term "patrifocal family structure and ideology."5 Although India's contemporary ...
Susan Christine Seymour, 1999
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Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film: Global ...
The pivot of the problem here is adherence to a Confucian, patrifocal script for the family. Patrifocality, as defined by Mukhopadhyay and Seymour, is a kinship and family structure that may take various forms but always implies the ...
John Stephens, 2012
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Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of ...
The literature on matrifocality is important in that it challenges evolutionary schemes that posit the nuclear patrifocal (male headed) family as the final developed and evolved form of the family in the golden age of mature capitalism. From this, it ...
Kojo Amanor, 2001
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Roads to Change in Maya Guatemala: A Field School Approach ...
In Nahuala, men are the center of a male-oriented or patrifocal society. The problem, however, is that patrifocality comes at the expense of women. The justice of the peace and others observed that Nahuala is a closed corporate community ...
John Palmer Hawkins, Walter Randolph Adams, 2005
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Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text
In discussing these quotes, Seymour relates the women's comments to the broader patrifocal context. As you read the next extract from Seymour's discussion, can you identify how she traces the ways in which the women draw on, and ...
Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle, Shelley Day Sclater, 2012

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATRIFOCAL»

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Equality, Empowerment, and the Gulabi Gang
They could own property and get divorced and though their societies were patrifocal, meaning that men were the center of the social structure ... «Guardian Liberty Voice, Mar 14»
2
South Indian Phylogeography
It could be that for most of history male lineages exchanged women between patrifocal households, so that sons stayed home while daughters ... «ScienceBlogs, Dec 08»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Patrifocal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/patrifocal>. May 2024 ».
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