English monarch definition
Etymology
From Middle French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek μονάρχης (monárkhēs), variant of μόναρχος (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
monarch (plural monarchs)
- The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 25:Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.
- The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
- (Aboriginal English) A police officer.
1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics, published 2012, page 41:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
- (often capitalised) A stag which has sixteen or more points or tines on its antlers.
- The chief or best thing of its kind.
- Any bird of the family Monarchidae.
- Synonym: monarch flycatcher
Usage notes
See monarchy.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
ruler
- Afrikaans: monarg
- Albanian: monark (sq) m
- Amharic: ንጉሥ m (nəguś)
- Arabic: عَاهِل m (ʿāhil)
- Armenian: միապետ (hy) (miapet), ինքնակալ (hy) (inkʿnakal)
- Aromanian: munarhu m, munarhã f
- Azerbaijani: monarx
- Bashkir: батша (batşa)
- Basque: monarka (eu)
- Belarusian: мана́рх m (manárx)
- Bengali: সম্রাট (bn) m (śômraṭ), সম্রাজ্ঞী f (śômraggi)
- Breton: unpenn m
- Bulgarian: мона́рх (bg) m (monárh)
- Burmese: ဘုရင် (my) (bhu.rang)
- Catalan: monarca (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 君主 (zh) (jūnzhǔ), 王 (zh) (wáng)
- Corsican: munarca m
- Czech: panovník (cs) m, monarcha (cs) m
- Danish: monark (da) c
- Dutch: monarch (nl) m
- Emilian: please add this translation if you can
- Erzya: вейкинязор (vejkinjazor)
- Esperanto: monarĥo, monarko
- Estonian: monarh
- Finnish: monarkki (fi)
- French: monarque (fr) m
- Friulian: monarcje
- Galician: monarca (gl) m or f
- Georgian: მონარხი (monarxi), მეფე (ka) (mepe)
- German: Monarch (de) m, Monarchin (de) f, Fürst (de) m
- Greek: μονάρχης (el) m (monárchis)
- Ancient: μόναρχος m (mónarkhos), μονάρχης m (monárkhēs)
- Hebrew: מונרך (he) m (monárk)
- Hindi: राजा (hi) m (rājā)
- Hungarian: uralkodó (hu), egyeduralkodó (hu), fejedelem (hu), monarcha
- Icelandic: einvaldsherra m, konungur (is) m, drottning (is) f, fursti m, keisari (is) m, einvaldur m, einvaldur þjóðhöfðingi konungsríkis m, einvaldur þjóðhöfðingi keisaradæmis m, einvaldur þjóðhöfðingi furstadæmis m, höfðingi (is) m, jöfur (is) m,
- Ido: monarko (io)
- Indonesian: raja (id)
- Irish: monarc m
- Italian: monarca (it) m
- Japanese: 君主 (ja) (くんしゅ, kunshu), 王 (ja) (おう, ō)
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- Javanese: ratu (jv)
- Kazakh: монарх (monarx)
- Khmer: ព្រះមហាក្សត្រ (prĕəh mĕəʼhaaksat), ក្ស័ត្រ (ksat)
- Korean: 군주 (ko) (gunju)
- Kyrgyz: монарх (monarh)
- Lao: ທິລາດ (thi lāt)
- Latvian: monarhs m
- Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: monarchas m
- Lombard: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: монарх m (monarh), владетел m (vladetel)
- Malay: ratu (ms), raja (ms), permaisuri, pemerintah (ruler)
- Maltese: monarka m
- Manx: ard-ree m
- Marathi: राजा m (rājā)
- Mongolian: ван (mn) (van)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: monark (no) m
- Nynorsk: monark (no) m
- Persian: مونارک (monârk), پادشاه (fa) (pâdešâh, pâdšâh), ملکه (fa) (malake) (female)
- Piedmontese: monarca m
- Polish: monarcha (pl) m, monarchini (pl) f
- Portuguese: monarca (pt) m or f
- Punjabi: ਰਾਜਾ m (rājā)
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: monarh (ro) m
- Russian: мона́рх (ru) m (monárx)
- Scottish Gaelic: mhonarc m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: монарх m
- Roman: monarh (sh) m
- Slovak: panovník m, monarcha m
- Slovene: monarh (sl) m
- Spanish: monarca (es) m or f
- Swedish: monark (sv) c
- Tajik: подишоҳ (podišoh), монарх (monarx)
- Tamil: அரசன் (ta) (aracaṉ)
- Thai: กษัตริย์ (th) (gà-sàt)
- Turkish: hakan (tr), hükümdar (tr)
- Ukrainian: мона́рх m (monárx)
- Uzbek: monarx (uz), podsho (uz)
- Vietnamese: vua (vi), quân chủ (vi), quốc vương (vi)
- Welsh: teyrn (cy) m
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- Portuguese: borboleta-monarca f
- Romanian: fluture monarh m
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chief or
best thing of its kind
bird of the family Monarchidae
References
A monarch can have any of the following titles:
Anagrams
Dutch monarch definition
Etymology
From Middle Dutch monarcha, from Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek μονάρχης (monárkhēs), variant of μόναρχος (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from 'μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːˈnɑrx/
- Hyphenation: mo‧narch
- Rhymes: -ɑrx
Noun
monarch m (plural monarchen, diminutive monarchje n)
- monarch
Derived terms
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