Usually means: Rule by one hereditary leader.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. monarchy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. monarchy, the monarchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monarchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monarchy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monarchy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Monarchy, monarchy: Wordnik
  7. monarchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. monarchy: Wiktionary
  9. monarchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. monarchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. monarchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. monarchy: Dictionary.com
  13. monarchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. monarchy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Monarchy (Rivers of Nihil album), Monarchy (TV series), Monarchy (band), Monarchy (comic book), Monarchy (comics), Monarchy (disambiguation), Monarchy, The Monarchy (comics), The Monarchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Monarchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. monarchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. monarchy: Rhymezone
  19. monarchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. monarchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. monarchy: Free Dictionary
  22. monarchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. monarchy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Monarchy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monarchy: Global Glossary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. The Monarchy, monarchy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Monarchy, monarchy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monarchy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See monarchies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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).
noun:  The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
noun:  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.
noun:  States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.

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