All materfamilias synonyms

noun materfamilias

• grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
• empress — A female emperor.
• queen — Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.
• matron — a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
• woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
• ruler — a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
• ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
• antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
• author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
• forerunner — predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
• founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
• matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
• originator — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
• parent — a father or a mother.
• patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
• precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
• progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
• relative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
• sire — the male parent of a quadruped.
• ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
• begetter — The begetter of something has caused this thing to come into existence.
• paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
• primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
• procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).