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HIERARCHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
Synonyms:
hierarchy; pecking order; power structure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("hierarchy" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Meronyms (members of "hierarchy"):
hierarch (a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy)
Holonyms ("hierarchy" is a part of...):
administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
Example:
put honesty first in her hierarchy of values
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("hierarchy" is a kind of...):
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hierarchy"):
celestial hierarchy (the collective body of angels)
data hierarchy (an arrangement of data consisting of sets and subsets such that every subset of a set is of lower rank than the set)
taxonomy (a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc)
Holonyms ("hierarchy" is a part of...):
scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)
Derivation:
hierarchical (classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers)
