FEMALE MONARCH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does female monarch mean? 

• FEMALE MONARCH (noun)
  The noun FEMALE MONARCH has 1 sense:

1. a female sovereign ruler

  Familiarity information: FEMALE MONARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMALE MONARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female sovereign ruler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

female monarch; queen; queen regnant

Hypernyms ("female monarch" is a kind of...):

female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "female monarch"):

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Instance hyponyms:

Cleopatra (beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC))

Isabella; Isabella I; Isabella the Catholic; Queen Isabella (the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504))

Liliuokalani; Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani (queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917))

Mary Queen of Scots; Mary Stuart (queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587))

Holonyms ("female monarch" is a member of...):

royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)

Antonym:

male monarch (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)