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Meaning of monarchies

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

monarchies

noun

Definitions

  1. A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).

  2. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.

  3. A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.

  4. States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.