monarchy

Etymology
From, from , from , from +. .

Noun

 * 1) 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).
 * 2) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
 * 1) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
 * 1) States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.

Usage notes
Historically refers to a wide variety of systems with a single, nominally absolute ruler (compare, ), today primarily refers to and connotes a traditional, hereditary position, often with mainly symbolic power. Typically used of rulers who use the terms / or /.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:government

Coordinate terms

 * See Thesaurus:government

Related terms

 * monarchic
 * monarchic

Translations

 * Afrikaans: monargie
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مَلِكِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, padşahlıq, sultanlıq, təkərklik
 * Basque: monarkia
 * Belarusian: мана́рхія
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: unpenniezh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: မင်း၏အစိုးရခြင်း
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: munarchia, monarchia
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: вейкинязорксчи
 * Esperanto: monarkio, monarĥio
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kongsveldi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: monarchie
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μοναρχία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: राजतन्त्र,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: monarchia
 * Irish: monarcacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:, патшалық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: монархия, падышалык, жекебийлик
 * Lao: ຣາຊາທິປະໄຕ, ລາຊາທິປະໄຕ
 * Latvian: monarhija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: монархија
 * Malay: monarki
 * Malayalam: രാജവാഴ്ച, രാജാധിപത്യം
 * Maltese: monarkija
 * Maori: arikitanga
 * Marathi: राजेशाही
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эзэн хаант улс,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: monarki
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:, بادشاهي, , باچايي, پاچاهي,
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹੀ
 * Romagnol: munarchì
 * Romanian:
 * Cyrillic: монархие
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: muonarkėjė
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: monarcachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мона̀рхија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: monarchia
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: monarkiya
 * Tajik: салтанат, монархия, хокимияти мутлақа, подшоҳӣ, подишоҳӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: монархия,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྒྱལ་སྲིད
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: monarhiýa, patyşalyk
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بادْشاہَت
 * Uyghur: پادىشاھلىق, پادىشالىق
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, chế độ quân chủ, nền quân chủ, 君主制
 * Welsh: archdeyrnieath
 * West Frisian: monargy
 * Yiddish: קעניגרייך, מאָנאַרכיע