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MONARCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed
Synonyms:
Danaus plexippus; milkweed butterfly; monarch; monarch butterfly
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("monarch" is a kind of...):
danaid; danaid butterfly (large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste)
Holonyms ("monarch" is a member of...):
Danaus; genus Danaus (type genus of the Danaidae: monarch butterflies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
Synonyms:
crowned head; monarch; sovereign
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("monarch" is a kind of...):
chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)
ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monarch"):
Capetian (a member of the Capetian dynasty)
Carlovingian; Carolingian (a member of the Carolingian dynasty)
czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))
emperor (the male ruler of an empire)
king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
Merovingian (a member of the Merovingian dynasty)
Shah; Shah of Iran (title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran)
Derivation:
monarchal (ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch)
monarchal (having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch)
monarchic; monarchical (ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch)
monarchical (having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch)
Context examples:
Doff, dog, doff, he hissed, when a monarch deigns to lower his eyes to such as you!—then spurred through the underwood and was gone, with a gleam of steel shoes and flutter of dead leaves.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Besides, as it is in the power of the monarch to raise the island above the region of clouds and vapours, he can prevent the falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Neither entreaty nor courtly remonstrance came from the English prince; but Sir Hugh Calverley passed silently over the border with his company, and the blazing walls of the two cities of Miranda and Puenta de la Reyna warned the unfaithful monarch that there were other metals besides gold, and that he was dealing with a man to whom it was unsafe to lie.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I come, he shouted in a hoarse, thick voice, with a strong Breton accent, as squire and herald from my master, who is a very valiant pursuivant-of-arms, and a liegeman to the great and powerful monarch, Charles, king of the French.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Far down the course of time I can see her still leading the nations, a wayward queen among the peoples, great in war, but greater in peace, quick in thought, deft in action, with her people's will for her sole monarch, from the sands of Calais to the blue seas of the south.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He desired I would give him as exact an account of the government of England as I possibly could; because, as fond as princes commonly are of their own customs (for so he conjectured of other monarchs, by my former discourses), he should be glad to hear of any thing that might deserve imitation.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In common garb, his masterful face and flashing eye would have marked him as one who was born to rule; but now, with his silken tunic powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, his velvet mantle lined with the royal minever, and the lions of England stamped in silver upon his harness, none could fail to recognize the noble Edward, most warlike and powerful of all the long line of fighting monarchs who had ruled the Anglo-Norman race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
