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Plural of monarchy

regular plural

The plural of monarchy is monarchies.

Forms of monarchy

Singularmonarchy /ˈmɒnəki/
Pluralmonarchies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Monarchies in a sentence

  • Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.From the entry partition
  • Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.From the entry personal union
  • It was politically correct also from the standpoint of the need to overthrow the three reactionary monarchies of Europe—that of Russia, of Germany and of Austria-Hungary.1969, Y. F. Sopin, chapter 5, in The Bolshevik Party's Struggle Against Trotskyism, page 214. From the entry politically correct

Meaning of monarchy

  1. noun 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).
  2. noun The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of monarchy

Questions about the plural of monarchy

What is the plural of monarchy?
The plural of monarchy is monarchies.
Is monarchy countable?
Monarchy is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monarchy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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