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    FEMALE MONARCH

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A female sovereign rulerplay

    Synonyms:

    female monarch; queen; queen regnant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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)

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