MONARCHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monarchy mean? 

• MONARCHY (noun)
  The noun MONARCHY has 1 sense:

1. an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

  Familiarity information: MONARCHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONARCHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("monarchy" is a kind of...):

autarchy; autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)

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

parliamentary monarchy (a monarchy having a parliament)

kingdom (a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state)

empire (a monarchy with an emperor as head of state)

Derivation:

monarchal; monarchic; monarchical (ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch)

 Context examples 

The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)