matrilocal
adjUK /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈləʊ.kəl/ · US /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈloʊ.kəl/
Etymology From matri- + local.
1
Of a married couple Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
2
Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences Of a people or culture In which newly married couples live with the wife's family.
- In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
- Synonyms
- uxorilocal
- Antonyms
- patrilocal
- Derived terms
- matrilocality, matrilocally