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Definition of patrilocal in English English dictionary
- Describing a people or culture in which newly married couples live with the male's family
- living with the family of the husband
- Describing a people or culture in which newly married couples live with the males family
- {s} living with the husband's family, pertaining to residence with the husband's family (Anthropology)
- patrilocal residence
- In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality (also virilocal residence or virilocality) is a term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents