noun
Meaning 1
A patriarchal system or community.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
patriarchate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪtɹiɑːkət/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpætɹiɑːkət/
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General-American: /ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹkət/
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General-American: /ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹkeɪt/
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noun
Meaning 2
The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
Examples
- The patriarchate of Pope John Paul II as Patriarch of the West was more than 25 years.
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noun
Meaning 3
The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The Patriarchate of Constantinople has primacy over the whole of the Orthodox world.
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noun
Meaning 4
The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem is, by modern standards, a very cramped space.
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noun
Meaning 5
a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: patriarchy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure
noun
Meaning 6
the jurisdiction of a patriarch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: jurisdiction
History
Etymology
From Middle French patriarcat, from Old French patriarcat, from Medieval Latin patriarchatus, from Ancient Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “patriarch”). By surface analysis, patriarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it, a body of people involved with it).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: patriarkaatti — term of office
- Galician: patriarcado — term of office
- Swedish: patriarkat — term of office
- Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيَّة (baṭriyarkiyya) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Belarusian: патрыярхат (patryjarxat) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Belarusian: патрыярхія (patryjarxija) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Bulgarian: патриа́ршия (patriáršija) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Chinese Mandarin: 宗主教區 /宗主教区 (zōngzhǔjiàoqū) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Finnish: patriarkaatti — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Polish: patriarchat — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Romanian: patriarhat — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Romanian: patriarhie — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Russian: патриархат (patriarxat) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Russian: патриархия (patriarxija) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Swedish: patriarkat — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Urdu: بَطرِیقی (batrīqī) — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Vietnamese: tòa thượng phụ — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Vietnamese: toà thượng phụ — office or ecclesial jurisdiction
- Bulgarian: патриа́ршия (patriáršija) — office space
- Finnish: patriarkaatti — office space
- Swedish: patriarkat — office space