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Dictionary: mon·arch   (mŏn'ərk, -ärk') pronunciation
n.
  1. One who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right, especially:
    1. A sole and absolute ruler.
    2. A sovereign, such as a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority: a constitutional monarch.
  2. One that commands or rules: "I am monarch of all I survey" (William Cowper).
  3. One that surpasses others in power or preeminence: "Mont Blanc is the monarch of the mountains" (Byron).
  4. A monarch butterfly.

[Middle English monarke, from Old French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Greek monarkhos : mono-, mono- + arkhein, to rule.]

monarchal mo·nar'chal (mə-när'kəl) or mo·nar'chic (-kĭk) or mo·nar'chi·cal (-kĭ-kəl) adj.
monarchally mo·nar'chal·ly or mo·nar'chi·cal·ly adv.

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n.

A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.


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IN BRIEF: A king, queen, or emperor. Also: A large North American butterfly.

pronunciation Monarch butterflies migrate great distances every year with generations being born all along the way.

Translations: Monarch
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - monark

Nederlands (Dutch)
monarch, vorst, monarchvlinder

Français (French)
n. - monarque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Monarch, Alleinherrscher

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μονάρχης

Italiano (Italian)
monarca

Português (Portuguese)
n. - monarca (m)

Русский (Russian)
монарх, вид бабочки

Español (Spanish)
n. - monarca

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - monark, konung

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
帝王, 元首, 统治者

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 帝王, 元首, 統治者

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 지배자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 君主, 王者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ملك, سلطان, عاهل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מלך, שליט, אדם רב-עוצמה, מונרך, סוג פרפר‬


 
 

 

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