Usually means: Residence with husband's family post-marriage.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word patrilocal:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. patrilocal: Merriam-Webster
  2. patrilocal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patrilocal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. patrilocal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. patrilocal: Wiktionary
  6. patrilocal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. patrilocal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. patrilocal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. patrilocal: Dictionary.com
  10. Patrilocal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. patrilocal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. patrilocal: Anthropological Terms

Definitions from Wiktionary (patrilocal)

adjective:  (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
adjective:  (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.

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