Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gynocratic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gy-no-crat-ic
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to government by women.

Example Sentences

"How it should exist where there are ladies, I do not conceive, and, least of all, do I conceive how it should exist in Philadelphia, the most gynocratic of all cities."
"More and more, archaeology is proving that there was indeed a golden age—a gynocratic age that endured for untold millennia, up past the dawn of written history."
"Traditional tribal lifestyles are more often gynocratic than not, and they are never patriarchal."

Etymology

From gyno- + -cratic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: gyno
Suffix: cratic

Inflected Forms

more gynocratic (comparative) most gynocratic (superlative)

Antonyms

androcratic phallocratic

Questions

What does gynocratic mean?: Pertaining to government by women.
Where does gynocratic come from?: From gyno- + -cratic.

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