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PRONUNCIATION OF UXORILOCAL

uxorilocal  [ʌkˌsɔːrɪˈləʊkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UXORILOCAL

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

WHAT DOES UXORILOCAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Matrilocal residence

In social anthropology, matrilocal residence or matrilocality is a term referring to the societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife's parents. Thus, the female offspring of a mother remain living in the mother's house, thereby forming large clan-families, typically consisting of three or four generations living in the same place.

Definition of uxorilocal in the English dictionary

The definition of uxorilocal in the dictionary is of or relating to living with the wife's tribe or family, also called matrilocal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UXORILOCAL


afocal
ˈeɪˌfəʊkəl
bifocal
baɪˈfəʊkəl
confocal
kɒnˈfəʊkəl
focal
ˈfəʊkəl
hyperfocal
ˌhaɪpəˈfəʊkəl
interlocal
ˌɪntəˈləʊkəl
local
ˈləʊkəl
matrilocal
ˈmætrɪˌləʊkəl
multifocal
ˌmʌltɪˈfəʊkəl
nonlocal
nɒnˈləʊkəl
parfocal
pɑːˈfəʊkəl
patrilocal
ˌpætrɪˈləʊkəl
socle
ˈsəʊkəl
subvocal
sʌbˈvəʊkəl
trifocal
traɪˈfəʊkəl
univocal
ˌjuːnɪˈvəʊkəl
varifocal
ˈvɛərɪˌfəʊkəl
virilocal
ˈvɪrɪˌləʊkəl
vocal
ˈvəʊkəl
yokel
ˈjəʊkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UXORILOCAL

uvula
uvulae
uvular
uvularly
uvulitis
UWB
UWIST
Uxbridge
Uxmal
uxorial
uxorially
uxoricidal
uxoricide
uxorious
uxoriously
uxoriousness
uy
Uys
uz

WORDS THAT END LIKE UXORILOCAL

equivocal
irreciprocal
matrifocal
multivocal
nonfocal
nonreciprocal
nonvocal
patrifocal
pedocal
reciprocal
semivocal
unequivocal
unvocal

Synonyms and antonyms of uxorilocal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «uxorilocal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UXORILOCAL

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入赘
1,325 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
570 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
510 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
380 millions of speakers
ar

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uxorilocal
280 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
278 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
270 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
260 millions of speakers

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uxorilocale
220 millions of speakers

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Uxorilocal
190 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
180 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
130 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
85 millions of speakers

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Uxorilocal
85 millions of speakers
vi

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uxorilocal
80 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
75 millions of speakers

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Uxorilocal
75 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
70 millions of speakers

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uxorilocale
65 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
50 millions of speakers

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uxorilocal
40 millions of speakers

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Uxorilocal
30 millions of speakers
el

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uxorilocal
15 millions of speakers
af

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uxorilocal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uxorilocal
10 millions of speakers
no

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uxorilocal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uxorilocal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UXORILOCAL»

The term «uxorilocal» is used very little and occupies the 185.756 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UXORILOCAL» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UXORILOCAL»

Discover the use of uxorilocal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uxorilocal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Family and Population in East Asian History
On. the. Causes. and. Demographic. Consequences. of. Uxorilocal. Marriage. in. China. Burton. Pasternak. "In Shang-nan county there is a custom by which people who have no sons but who do have a daughter call a son-in-law into the ...
Susan B. Hanley, Arthur P. Wolf, 1985
2
Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
transmission of uxorilocal marriage in Lueyang are affected (Li, S., et al. 2000, 2001). Comparison of Determinants of Uxorilocal Marriage Logistic regression analyses (see table 8.6) show that the determinants common to the two types of ...
Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves, 2009
3
Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: ...
This book extends the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits.
Anne H. Gauthier, C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, 2007
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Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan
But when we look at the relative frequency of uxorilocal marriages in Ploughshare and in the nine districts taken as a whole, we find a consistent difference. Where the percentages of uxorilocal marriages in the nine districts remain relatively ...
Stevan Harrell, 1982
5
The Cambridge History of Japan
residence in noble society at the capital were uxorilocal, neolocal, and duolocal. It appears that the society's ideal marriage, the marriage that took place when all things were normal and as they should be, was uxorilocal, or uxorilocal followed  ...
John Whitney Hall, 1988
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Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
Uxorilocal marriage,inwhich a groom moves tolivewith thebride's family, is far fromrare in Yishala. Intheyear 2005, amongthe 370marriages registered on the tallyfor men between theagesof 25 and 45,11 per cent were uxorilocal (Table 2.2)  ...
Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos, 2008
7
Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and ...
ETHNIC ORIGIN OF SPOUSES IN THE GENERATION OF PEOPLE INTERVIEWED (Toushe, Jibeishua, and Longtianl Form of marriage # marriages Plains Aborigines Han Unknown or mixed Uxorilocal Virilocal Total 28 71 49 21 ( 75%l ...
Melissa J. Brown, 2004
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Atlas of World Cultures
If the differential frequency is greater than this, the symbols Uv or Vu are used to denote, respectively, a marked preponderance of uxorilocal or virilocal practice. C Optionally uxorilocal or avunculocal. This may be the case in a uxorilocal ...
George Peter Murdock, 1981
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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological ...
Furthermore, in much of China uxorilocal marriage was productive of tensions involving the presence in one family of two succession lines whose interests had to be reconciled. For example, my first fieldwork in a south Taiwan village (Cohen  ...
Myron L. Cohen, 2005
10
Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
The uxorilocal husband was often called churlish or chao-hsit. The former term emphasizes the man, the husband himself; one meaning of the term chui is "an excressence," something unnecessary. But it is also sometimes identified with ...
A. Kleinman, Tsung-Yi Lin, 1981

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UXORILOCAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uxorilocal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cultura e igualdad de oportunidades en justicia
... es decir que la mujer cuando se casa va a convivir con la familia del marido, y, por el contrario, en la Amazonía y el Chaco se da una convivencia uxorilocal, ... «La Razón, Aug 12»
2
Dom 5 2 12. Iglesia cafarnaumita: Entre la suegra que sirve y Simón …
... la que llevaba a su esposa); pero otros en los que el marido empezaba a vivir en la casa de los padres (o de la madre) de la esposa (matrimonio uxorilocal). «Periodista Digital, Feb 12»
3
China's Census: The One-Child Policy's Gender-Ratio Failure
China even tried experimenting with uxorilocal marriage, whereby the groom marries into the bride's family and provides for her parents in old age, with the ... «World Politics Review, May 11»

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