Monarch

['mɒnək] or ['mɑnɚk]

Definition

(noun.) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed.

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Definition

(n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.

(n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

(n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.

(n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

(a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Autocrat, despot.[2]. Sovereign, king, emperor, potentate.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:King, sovereign, despot, tyrant, czar

ANT:Peer, subject

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Definition

n. a sole or supreme ruler: sovereign: the chief of its kind.—adj. supreme: superior to others.—adjs. Monarch′al pertaining to a monarch: regal; Monarch′ial Monarch′ic -al relating to a monarch or to monarchy: vested in a single ruler.—ns. Monarch′ian a Christian who denied the personal independent subsistence of Christ—dynamic when regarding the divinity of Christ as only a power (dynamis) communicated to Him; modalistic when regarding Christ as God Himself incarnate the Father who had assumed flesh a mere modus of the Godhead; Monarch′ianism the doctrine of the Monarchians in opposition to Subordinationalism.—adj. Monarchianis′tic.—v.t. Mon′archise to rule over as a monarch: to convert into a monarchy.—ns. Mon′archism the principles of monarchy: love of monarchy; Mon′archist an advocate of monarchy: a believer in monarchy; Monarch′o (Shak.) a fantastic Englishman who assumed Italian airs any fantastic person; Mon′archy a state or a people ruled over by one person: a kind of government of which the chief power is in the hands of a monarch: the territory of a monarch.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled as the derivation of the word attests and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.

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