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单词 monarchy
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Definition of monarchy in English:

monarchy

nounPlural monarchies ˈmɒnəki
mass noun
  • 1A form of government with a monarch at the head.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of course even such symbolic discrimination is wrong, but monarchy is by definition a rejection of social equality.
    • The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
    • You can see that the resulting difference in the constitution may be enormous: anywhere from social democracy to absolute monarchy.
    • Khan said a large number of people in Nepal said the king's recent action was not in keeping with constitutional monarchy.
    • The history of the world is a history of systems: monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, what you will.
    • Much of what Australian republicans sought was achieved under constitutional monarchy.
    • A new constitution was promulgated restoring constitutional monarchy.
    • Can people move directly from a clan-based system to democracy, skipping monarchy and feudalism?
    • It did not depend on the formal characteristics of the state - monarchy or republic, constitutional or authoritarian.
    • He ridiculed the very idea of monarchy and turned the political debate in a decisively republican direction.
    • It acknowledges darkness, as well as the historic bookends of oppressive monarchy and violent fascism.
    • The Second Empire almost solved the problem of reconciling monarchy and democracy - but not quite, and not in time.
    • Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
    • Discussions about republican Rome were also at that time a way of masking criticisms of monarchy, in a society where open criticism was impossible.
    • The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal.
    • It was supposed to be about ideology and heroism, but in reality, it was just a new brand of monarchy.
    • A universal franchise and limited government are better than monarchy or tyranny.
    • The Spartan constitution was mixed, containing elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
    • His reign marked a significant advance from personal monarchy towards the bureaucratised state of the future.
    • The first one I have put up is a rather whimsical article by an American journalist on why constitutional monarchy is the best form of government.
    Synonyms
    kingship, sovereignty, autocracy, monocracy, absolutism, absolute power, despotism
    royalism, monarchism
    1. 1.1count noun A state that has a monarch.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.
      • By way of comparison there are nine constitutional monarchies in the Caribbean which have never had problems with their governors-general.
      • Tiberius did not shrink from annexing dependent monarchies: Germanicus took over Commagene and Cappadocia, which made it possible to halve the Roman sales tax.
      • Like all the little monarchies scattered along the coast of the Gulf, Kuwait used to be a sleepy little backwater, getting by on pearl fishing and trade.
      • Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
      • Saudi Arabia is among the world's richest monarchies, but it has not spread monarchy in the mainly republican Middle East.
      • It declares that we, as a society, have more faith in foreign monarchies than we do in our own innovation and technology.
      • Luxembourg is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy.
      • In contrast to monarchies in which the king had the power to separate conflicting factions, any such higher authority was absent in the Dutch Republic.
      • Obviously there are some differences living in monarchies like Australia, New Zealand and Canada to living in others like Sweden, Denmark or The Netherlands.
      • Most of the institutional devices typical of modern democracies were forged in republics or limited monarchies.
      • Of the roughly 200 countries in the world, only about two dozen remain monarchies.
      • According to international financial bodies, this situation demands the reform of what is one of the world's last remaining constitutional monarchies.
      • If the people of this or other hereditary monarchies prefer their form of government to a democracy, that preference ought to be testable.
      • Because of increasingly complex feudal contracts, English kings ruled parts of France and conflict between the two monarchies was common.
      • If Britain and Sweden provided working models of parliamentary monarchies, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth offered a salutary lesson of another kind.
      • When Prussia defeated France in 1870, it initiated the establishment of a new German Empire, a monarchy over monarchies.
      • He refutes the neo-Weberian argument that financial demands of warfare obliged monarchies to develop modern bureaucracies.
      • All three of the countries are monarchies of one sort or another.
      • Since 1951, Jordan has been a constitutional hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary form of government.
      Synonyms
      kingdom, sovereign state, principality, empire
      realm
    2. 1.2the monarchy The monarch and royal family of a country.
      the monarchy is the focus of loyalty and service
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Old traditions are still very much alive in Swaziland, where the monarchy maintains absolute power.
      • However, the monarchy was not absolute, but relied on the support of a powerful and divided nobility.
      • The recent divorce was a sad event in what is traditionally one of the world's most popular and much loved monarchies.
      • The 1958 coup that saw the overthrow of the monarchy threw the his family into turmoil.
      • The monarchy and the royal judiciary played important roles in the history of early modern France.
      • The Portuguese monarchy was finally deposed by the revolution of 1910.
      • The policy was continued by the Sunni-based monarchy that was installed by the British after 1932.
      • When we come back, we'll talk about the royals and what's going on with the monarchy.
      • The country has one of the oldest monarchies in the world.
      • Of more immediate concern to the queen was probably the role of the monarchy itself and the vicissitudes of the royal family.
      • Even one of the most famous monarchies in England which gave the king almost absolute powers came under scrutiny from some nobles.
      • Do you think that's where the royal family and the monarchy will go?
      • The Crown and the Royal Family, the monarchy, stand for something to be proud of in this world today.
      • When analysing this aspect of the portraits, one historian questioned why the Spanish monarchy tolerated him.
      • Until 1918, the region was ruled by the German, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires, or native monarchies.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French monarchie, via late Latin from Greek monarkhia 'the rule of one'.

 
 

Definition of monarchy in US English:

monarchy

noun
  • 1A form of government with a monarch at the head.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first one I have put up is a rather whimsical article by an American journalist on why constitutional monarchy is the best form of government.
    • Of course even such symbolic discrimination is wrong, but monarchy is by definition a rejection of social equality.
    • The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal.
    • Discussions about republican Rome were also at that time a way of masking criticisms of monarchy, in a society where open criticism was impossible.
    • You can see that the resulting difference in the constitution may be enormous: anywhere from social democracy to absolute monarchy.
    • Khan said a large number of people in Nepal said the king's recent action was not in keeping with constitutional monarchy.
    • Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
    • The Second Empire almost solved the problem of reconciling monarchy and democracy - but not quite, and not in time.
    • He ridiculed the very idea of monarchy and turned the political debate in a decisively republican direction.
    • The Spartan constitution was mixed, containing elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
    • The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
    • Much of what Australian republicans sought was achieved under constitutional monarchy.
    • His reign marked a significant advance from personal monarchy towards the bureaucratised state of the future.
    • The history of the world is a history of systems: monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, what you will.
    • A new constitution was promulgated restoring constitutional monarchy.
    • It did not depend on the formal characteristics of the state - monarchy or republic, constitutional or authoritarian.
    • A universal franchise and limited government are better than monarchy or tyranny.
    • Can people move directly from a clan-based system to democracy, skipping monarchy and feudalism?
    • It acknowledges darkness, as well as the historic bookends of oppressive monarchy and violent fascism.
    • It was supposed to be about ideology and heroism, but in reality, it was just a new brand of monarchy.
    Synonyms
    kingship, sovereignty, autocracy, monocracy, absolutism, absolute power, despotism
    1. 1.1 A state that has a monarch.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since 1951, Jordan has been a constitutional hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary form of government.
      • All three of the countries are monarchies of one sort or another.
      • Obviously there are some differences living in monarchies like Australia, New Zealand and Canada to living in others like Sweden, Denmark or The Netherlands.
      • Most of the institutional devices typical of modern democracies were forged in republics or limited monarchies.
      • Like all the little monarchies scattered along the coast of the Gulf, Kuwait used to be a sleepy little backwater, getting by on pearl fishing and trade.
      • If the people of this or other hereditary monarchies prefer their form of government to a democracy, that preference ought to be testable.
      • Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.
      • By way of comparison there are nine constitutional monarchies in the Caribbean which have never had problems with their governors-general.
      • If Britain and Sweden provided working models of parliamentary monarchies, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth offered a salutary lesson of another kind.
      • According to international financial bodies, this situation demands the reform of what is one of the world's last remaining constitutional monarchies.
      • In contrast to monarchies in which the king had the power to separate conflicting factions, any such higher authority was absent in the Dutch Republic.
      • Tiberius did not shrink from annexing dependent monarchies: Germanicus took over Commagene and Cappadocia, which made it possible to halve the Roman sales tax.
      • He refutes the neo-Weberian argument that financial demands of warfare obliged monarchies to develop modern bureaucracies.
      • Of the roughly 200 countries in the world, only about two dozen remain monarchies.
      • Luxembourg is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy.
      • When Prussia defeated France in 1870, it initiated the establishment of a new German Empire, a monarchy over monarchies.
      • It declares that we, as a society, have more faith in foreign monarchies than we do in our own innovation and technology.
      • Because of increasingly complex feudal contracts, English kings ruled parts of France and conflict between the two monarchies was common.
      • Saudi Arabia is among the world's richest monarchies, but it has not spread monarchy in the mainly republican Middle East.
      • Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
      Synonyms
      kingdom, sovereign state, principality, empire
    2. 1.2the monarchy The monarch and royal family of a country.
      the monarchy is the focus of loyalty and service
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Until 1918, the region was ruled by the German, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires, or native monarchies.
      • The 1958 coup that saw the overthrow of the monarchy threw the his family into turmoil.
      • The Crown and the Royal Family, the monarchy, stand for something to be proud of in this world today.
      • The policy was continued by the Sunni-based monarchy that was installed by the British after 1932.
      • Of more immediate concern to the queen was probably the role of the monarchy itself and the vicissitudes of the royal family.
      • The country has one of the oldest monarchies in the world.
      • Even one of the most famous monarchies in England which gave the king almost absolute powers came under scrutiny from some nobles.
      • Do you think that's where the royal family and the monarchy will go?
      • When we come back, we'll talk about the royals and what's going on with the monarchy.
      • Old traditions are still very much alive in Swaziland, where the monarchy maintains absolute power.
      • When analysing this aspect of the portraits, one historian questioned why the Spanish monarchy tolerated him.
      • The monarchy and the royal judiciary played important roles in the history of early modern France.
      • The recent divorce was a sad event in what is traditionally one of the world's most popular and much loved monarchies.
      • However, the monarchy was not absolute, but relied on the support of a powerful and divided nobility.
      • The Portuguese monarchy was finally deposed by the revolution of 1910.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French monarchie, via late Latin from Greek monarkhia ‘the rule of one’.

 
 
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