enate
Collocations
1ADJ.
deceased
Definitions
noun
A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.
Any maternal female relative.
adj
Related to someone by female connections.
Related on the maternal side of the family.
Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
Growing out.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — one related on the mother's side
- matrikin
- matrisib
adjective — related on the mother's side
- enatic
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
WiktionarySimilarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group m
Wiktionary