monarchy
IPA: mˈɑnɑrki
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).
- The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
- 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.
- States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
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Examples of "monarchy" in Sentences
- He supports the abolition of the monarchy.
- A monarchy was the governmental choice of the day.
- The symbol of the monarchy is the sovereign herself.
- He wanted to reduce the expenditure of the monarchy.
- He supported the idea of a constitutional Incan monarchy.
- A transplanted Briton, he is the scourge of the monarchy.
- Danish Crown Regalia are the symbols of the Danish monarchy.
- It is clear that there is no principled defence of the monarchy.
- The monarchy of Sweden is the constitutional monarchy of the Kingdom of Sweden.
- The founding of the empire was tantamount to a restoration of the old monarchy.
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