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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hi•er•ar•chy /ˈhaɪəˌrɑrki, ˈhaɪrɑr-/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -chies. - any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- Religionthe persons in authority or having the highest power:the party hierarchy.
hi•er•ar•chic/ˌhaɪəˈrɑrkɪk/USA pronunciation hi•er•ar•chi•cal, adj. hi•er•ar•chi•cal•ly, adv. See -arch-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hi•er•ar•chy (hī′ə rär′kē, hī′rär-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -chies. - any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- Religiongovernment by ecclesiastical rulers.
- the power or dominion of a hierarch.
- an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders:the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
- Religionone of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as constituting a graded body.
- ReligionAlso called celestial hierarchy. the collective body of angels.
- Governmentgovernment by an elite group.
- Linguisticsthe system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic.
- Medieval Latin ierarchia, variant of hierarchia
- Middle French ierarchie
- Late Greek hierarchía rule or power of the high priest, equivalent. to hier- hier- + archía -archy; replacing Middle English jerarchie
- Medieval Latin hierarchia
- 1300–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: hierarchy /ˈhaɪəˌrɑːkɪ/ n ( pl -chies)- a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order
- a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks
- the collective body of those so organized
- a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into classes, orders, families, etc
- government by an organized priesthood
Etymology: 14th Century: from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Late Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs high priest; see hiero-, -archyˌhierˈarchical, ˌhierˈarchic adj ˈhierˌarchism n |