patrilocal
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- adjective
- /ˌpætrɪˈloʊkəl/
- Specialized
- In a typical patrilocal society, a newly married couple usually resides with the husband's family.
- patrilocal residence
Examples
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Patrilineal rules of descent and patrilocal residence, in the form of inheritance, determined her gender position.
Academic text (1998) -
This suggests that Neanderthals were patrilocal—females left their own families to join their mates.
Academic text (2011) -
With exogamous patrilocal marriage, the daughters would have to be married to men of other villages.
Academic text (2000) -
However, the higher geographical mobility of women is related to a continuation of the old pattern of patrilocal residence.
Academic text (1990) -
Male and female twins were also expected to marry on the same day, although in Ekiti, where marriage is ideally patrilocal, men would remain in their family compounds after marriage, whereas women would move out.
Academic text (2001) -
However, it often created serious problems in an intensive agriculturalist, patrilineal, exogamous, patrilocal context.
Academic text (2000) -
Even within patrilineal, patrilocal, polygynous societies, a woman maintained a particular relationship to her natal lineage.
Academic text (1998) -
A common explanation for not investing in girls' education is that parents will not reap the benefits of their investment because of patrilineal and patrilocal traditions that dictate that girls leave their natal homes at marriage and become members of their husband's lineage.
Academic text (2008) -
The couple chose a patrilocal arrangement, living near the husband's parents after their wedding.
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Their decision to follow a patrilocal custom meant they would be moving into the husband’s family home.
Synonyms
A married couple who live with or near the husband's family
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A family custom where a married couple lives with or near the wife's family
How Matrilocal
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Patrilocal comes from the parts patri- ('father') and local ('place'), so it literally means 'the father's place'. In a patrilocal custom, a married couple lives with or near the husband's family, which is why the word means living by the husband's side today.