"monarchy" meaning in English

See monarchy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɒnəki/ [UK], /ˈmɑnɚki/ [US] Audio: en-us-monarchy.ogg [US] Forms: monarchy [singular], monarchies [plural]
Head templates: {{noun|2=monarchies}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A monarchy is a form of government in which one person officially is the ruler of the state and the ruler's position is passed down through his family. Synonyms: kingdom, dynasty
    Sense id: simple-monarchy-en-noun-gDlCGjiP
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "monarchy",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "monarchies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "monarchies"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mon‧ar‧chy",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Belgium is a monarchy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A monarchy is a form of government in which one person officially is the ruler of the state and the ruler's position is passed down through his family."
      ],
      "id": "simple-monarchy-en-noun-gDlCGjiP",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kingdom"
        },
        {
          "word": "dynasty"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɒnəki/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑnɚki/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-monarchy.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "monarchy"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "monarchy",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "monarchies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "monarchies"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mon‧ar‧chy",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Belgium is a monarchy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A monarchy is a form of government in which one person officially is the ruler of the state and the ruler's position is passed down through his family."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kingdom"
        },
        {
          "word": "dynasty"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɒnəki/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑnɚki/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-monarchy.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "monarchy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for monarchy meaning in English (0.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-06 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (b81b832 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.