monarch
a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
a sole and absolute ruler of a state or nation.
a person or thing that holds a dominant position: a monarch of international shipping.
Origin of monarch
1Other words from monarch
- an·ti·mon·arch, adjective, noun
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How to use monarch in a sentence
Milkweed plants are the one food on which monarch caterpillars dine.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs | Rebecca E. Hirsch | August 17, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThese fall monarchs don’t mate or lay eggs like the summer ones.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs | Rebecca E. Hirsch | August 17, 2020 | Science News For StudentsFor both groups, fewer monarchs have been arriving at their winter homes than a few decades ago.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs | Rebecca E. Hirsch | August 17, 2020 | Science News For StudentsMany people are planting milkweed plants to feed monarch caterpillars.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs | Rebecca E. Hirsch | August 17, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThat way your gardens can host milkweeds without accidentally harming monarch caterpillars.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs | Rebecca E. Hirsch | August 17, 2020 | Science News For Students
Recently the French treated her virtually as their own monarch while simultaneously jeering their own president.
Imagining Prince Charles as King Makes All of Britain Wish They Could Leave Like Scotland | Clive Irving | September 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFifteen years later, King Felipe I of Redonda was crowned and ruled as an absolute monarch.
So You Want to Rule a Kingdom? A Wacky History of One-Man Nations | Nina Strochlic | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe monarch, the consummate PR, the head of the nation, had been supremely outplayed on her home territory.
If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak: It’s Time Royal Princesses Led Visible, Voluble Public Lives | Tim Teeman | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTmonarch didn't get distracted but carried right on with her speech.
Thump! Audible Crash As Queen's Page Boy Collapses At Opening of Parliament | Tom Sykes | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPro that she is the monarch didn't get distracted but carried right on with her speech.
Thump! Audible Crash As Queen's Page Boy Collapses At Opening of Parliament | Tom Sykes | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayThis was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftThe new monarch, with his striking personality and good looks, at once captivated the hearts of his fickle Southern subjects.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThis loss, more than anything else, brought home to the monarch his pitiable condition.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonAn insolent overbearing steward had reigned absolute monarch of the soil, during a long period of fifteen years.
The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
British Dictionary definitions for monarch
/ (ˈmɒnək) /
a sovereign head of state, esp a king, queen, or emperor, who rules usually by hereditary right
a supremely powerful or pre-eminent person or thing
Also called: milkweed a large migratory butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that has orange-and-black wings and feeds on the milkweed plant: family Danaidae
Origin of monarch
1Derived forms of monarch
- monarchal (mɒˈnɑːkəl) or monarchial (mɒˈnɑːkɪəl), adjective
- monarchally, adverb
- monarchical or monarchic, adjective
- monarchically, adverb
- monarchism, noun
- monarchist, noun, adjective
- monarchistic, adjective
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