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Meaning of "virilocal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIRILOCAL

virilocal  [ˈvɪrɪˌləʊkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIRILOCAL

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

WHAT DOES VIRILOCAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Patrilocal residence

In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality is a term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents. The concept of location may extend to a larger area such as a village, town, or clan area. This practice is found in about 69 percent of the world's cultures that have been described ethnographically. It has also been documented as well as among Neanderthals in Spain and ancient homonids in Africa.

Definition of virilocal in the English dictionary

The definition of virilocal in the dictionary is of or relating to the custom of living with the husband's family or tribe.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIRILOCAL


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
uxorilocal
ʌkˌsɔːrɪˈləʊkəl
varifocal
ˈvɛərɪˌfəʊkəl
vocal
ˈvəʊkəl
yokel
ˈjəʊkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIRILOCAL

viricidal
viricide
virid
viridescence
viridescent
viridian
viridite
viridity
virile
virilely
virilescence
virilescent
virilisation
virilism
virility
virilization
virilize
virino
virion
virogene

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIRILOCAL

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

Synonyms and antonyms of virilocal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «virilocal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIRILOCAL

Find out the translation of virilocal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of virilocal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «virilocal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

virilocal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

virilocal
570 millions of speakers

English

virilocal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

virilocal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

virilocal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

virilocal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

virilocal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

virilocal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

virilocale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Virilocal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

virilocal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

virilocal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

virilocal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Virilocal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

virilocal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

virilocal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषाणूजन्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

virilocal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

virilocale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

virilocal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

virilocal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

virilocal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

virilocal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

virilocal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

virilocal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

virilocal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of virilocal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRILOCAL»

The term «virilocal» is used very little and occupies the 190.887 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRILOCAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «virilocal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «virilocal» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRILOCAL»

Discover the use of virilocal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to virilocal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
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
2
Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of ...
In the next chapter I propose to discuss the structural implications of virilocal marriage within and between settlements in Ndembu society in considerable detail. But some of the consequences of this antithesis between mode of descent and ...
Victor Witter Turner, 1972
3
Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment
If one moves from Virilocal to Neolocal, two entries are marked with one score each; if another move is made back to Virilocal, this will not affect the score since Virilocal is already entered. Five cases of second marriage are also added.
Takie Sugiyama Lebra, 1985
4
The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe
conjugal-virilocal cases, where marriage takes place after thirty, and 48 percent of the parents are dead at the time of the marriage. Again, we must remember that the category "conjugal-virilocal" includes both the new households of ...
Robin Fox, 1978
5
Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese ...
TABLE 18 Frequency of Virilocal Residence of Nisei Couples During First Ten Years of Marriage, by Husband's Birth Order _ . r . . First sons Junior sons Extent of viri- _ local residence Number Percent Number Percent All sons Virilocal ...
Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
6
Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of ...
Porsiul (6) 1 Nuclear Virilocal 2 Extended Virilocal Kankapgam (11) 1 Nuclear Uxorilocal 2 Nuclear Virilocal Bangun(lO) 1 Nclr, Extnd Patriuxorlocal, Virilocal Kabintalis (5) 1 Extended Virilocal Lalimbihi (4) 1 Nclr, Nclr Virilocal, Patriuxorlocal ...
Alexander H. Bolyanatz, 2000
7
Matrilineal Kinship
Although multilocal, the residence of married couples was thus also dominantly virilocal (Colson, 1951: 112). There seem to be several reasons why the Tonga choice of residence should rest chiefly with men. First, although the homestead ...
David Murray Schneider, Kathleen Gough, 1961
8
Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali
Geertz and Geertz (1975: 7, 95) suggest a model of Bal- inese marriage which is characterized by two formal principles: virilocal residence and preferential endogamy. To some extent, the operation of these principles is apparent from the  ...
Megan Jennaway, 2002
9
Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book ...
from her father's house or her relinquishing of her son, indirectly implied by the fact that Jephthah seems to have grown up in the virilocal house, turns her into a "woman of unfaithfulness" in the eyes of the patrilocal ideology, while her ...
Mieke Bal, 1988
10
Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the ...
The mean number of years of virilocal residence, moreover, was greater for first sons than for other sons. But while first sons and their wives were more likely to reside virilocally for some period of time, not all of them did. More important, most  ...
Robert McC. Netting, Richard R. Wilk, Eric J. Arnould, 1984

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRILOCAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term virilocal is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Le premier rapport chez les jeunes filles à Yaoundé : The First …
Un rapport sexuel virilocal L'espace représente un enjeu de pouvoir réel : « Selon qu'un homme agit sur les autres en imposant sa volonté par la force, en la ... «Ici Cemac, Apr 13»
2
Cultura e igualdad de oportunidades en justicia
... que interviene la familia en defensa de la mujer, porque a diferencia de Los Andes donde hay una convivencia virilocal, es decir que la mujer cuando se casa ... «La Razón, Aug 12»
3
Marie Rodet, Les migrantes ignorées du Haut-Sénégal (1900-1946)
... les hommes africains désireux de maintenir l'ordre patriarcal et virilocal, convergeaient dans leur objectif de contrôle, restévain, de la mobilité des femmes, ... «Revues.org, Jul 11»
4
Fratries médiévales : réelles et symboliques.
Il cherche à mesurer les incidences de la pratique du mariage virilocal ou patrilocal sur les relations entre frères et sœurs, en s'appuyant sur le procès de ... «Fabula, Jun 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Virilocal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/virilocal>. Apr 2024 ».
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