patrilocal

American  

[pa-truh-loh-kuhl, pey-] / ˌpæ trəˈloʊ kəl, ˌpeɪ- /

adjective

Anthropology.

1. virilocal.

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patrilocal British  

/ ˌpætrɪˈləʊkəl /

adjective

1. having or relating to a marriage pattern in which the couple lives with the husband's family

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Other Word Forms

• patrilocality noun
• patrilocally adverb

Etymology

Origin of patrilocal

First recorded in 1905–10; patri- + local

Example Sentences

The majority of societies today are patrilocal, meaning women move to their husband's communities.

From BBC

But the DNA shows their patrilocal traditions persisted.

From Science Magazine

IBD analysis showed how women influenced Gurgy’s patrilocal community.

From Science Magazine

That suggests that among these Neolithic Britons, women were buried with the family of their mates, not their parents—an echo of arrangements in the later El Argar culture that opens the possibility that the people at Hazleton were patrilocal, too.

From Science Magazine

For example, if hunter-gatherer societies were patrilocal—with women leaving home to marry men from other communities—“pottery could be a female craft that spread from village to village through marriage,” McLaughlin says.

From Science Magazine