'Monarchy' definitions:
Definition of 'monarchy'
(from WordNet)
noun
An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
Definition of 'Monarchy'
From: GCIDE
- Monarchy \Mon"arch*y\, n.; pl. Monarchies. [F. monarchie, L. monarchia, Gr. ?. See Monarch.]
- 1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. [1913 Webster]
- In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom. [1913 Webster]
- What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monarchy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarchy,
- absolutism,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- authoritarianism,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- benevolent despotism,
- Caesarism,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- country,
- czarism,
- democracy,
- despotism,
- dictatorship,
- domain,
- dominion,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- empire,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- kaiserism,
- kingdom,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchism,
- monocracy,
- nation,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- one-man rule,
- one-party rule,
- pantisocracy,
- paternalism,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- principality,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- royalism,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- social democracy,
- sovereignty,
- Stalinism,
- state,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- totalitarianism,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state