Plural of hierarchy

Forms of hierarchy

Hierarchies in a sentence

• Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many.2023 June 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023
• Teachers also played a significant role in maintaining racial hierarchies through jokes and biases of their own.2017, Shayla Reese Griffin, Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School, Harvard Education Press, →ISBN. From the entry hyperracial
• By the eleventh century, sacred kingship within the west was separated from the hierarchies of church rule.2009, Christian Frost, Time, Space, and Order: The Making of Medieval Salisbury, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry investiture
• John Lewkenor, for example, challenges Virgil and the hierarchies of epic in a Petronius-style antiepic.2008, Tanya Caldwell, Virgil Made English, page 124. From the entry antiepic
• The studied integrity encourages, I think, a momentary degrammaticizing of the hierarchies of the sentence.2001, Chris Beyers, A history of free verse, Univ of Arkansas Pr, →ISBN. From the entry degrammaticize

Meaning of hierarchy

1. noun A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
2. noun A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
3. noun Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

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Questions about the plural of hierarchy

What is the plural of hierarchy?

The plural of hierarchy is hierarchies.

Is hierarchy countable?

Hierarchy is a countable noun.