Monarch vs Matriarch - What's the difference?
matriarch | monarch |
A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
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*1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
*:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
As nouns the difference between matriarch and monarch
is that matriarch is a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group while monarch is the ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.matriarch
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(en noun)Synonyms
* materfamiliasAntonyms
* highfather * paterfamilias * patriarchmonarch
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(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.