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means A social system in which men hold primary power in political, economic, and family structures, and authority tends to pass down the male line.

from Built from Greek patēr, 'father,' plus arkhein, 'to rule' — the same -archy that gives us monarchy and anarchy. The word entered English in church contexts for rule by a patriarch, a senior father-figure, before 20th-century feminist scholars widened it into the name for a whole social order.