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monarchies

monarchies is the plural of monarchy.

Meaning of monarchy

Noun

monarchy (countable and uncountable, plural monarchies)

  1. A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
    • An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.
  2. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
    • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    Synonyms:
    government
  3. A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.
  4. States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.

Phrases with monarchies

Questions about monarchies

What is monarchies the plural of?
Monarchies is the plural of monarchy.

Words near monarchies in the dictionary

  1. monarchical heroes
  2. monarchically
  3. monarchid
  4. monarchids
  5. monarchie
  6. monarchies
  7. monarchise
  8. monarchised
  9. monarchises
  10. monarchising
  11. monarchism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monarchies (page history and authors); monarchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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