| 单词 | hierarchy |
| 释义 | hierarchy /huy"euh rahr'kee, huy"rahr-/, n. , pl. hierarchies. 1. any system of persons or things ranked one above another. 2. government by ecclesiastical rulers. 3. the power or dominion of a hierarch. 4. an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders: the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 5. one of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as constituting a graded body. 6. Also called celestial hierarchy. the collective body of angels. 7. government by an elite group. 8. Ling. the system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic. [1300-50; < ML hierarchia < LGk hierarchía rule or power of the high priest, equiv. to hier- HIER- + archía -ARCHY; r. ME jerarchie < MF ierarchie < ML ierarchia, var. of hierarchia] |
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