monarch

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Middle French monarche, monarch, from Late Latin monarcha, from Greek mónarchos “sole ruler, monarch”; see mon-, -arch

OTHER WORDS FROM monarch

an·ti·mon·arch, adjective, noun

Words nearby monarch

Mona Lisa, monandrous, monandry, monanthous, Mona Passage, monarch, monarchal, monarch butterfly, Monarchianism, monarchical, monarchism

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How to use monarch in a sentence

For 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 Students
These 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 Students
That 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
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 Students

Many 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 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|DAILY BEAST
Fifteen 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|DAILY BEAST
The 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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
Pro 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|DAILY BEAST
In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
This was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The 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-Pattison
This loss, more than anything else, brought home to the monarch his pitiable condition.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
An 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

monarch

/ (ˈmɒnək) /

noun

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

Derived forms of monarch

monarchal (mɒˈnɑːkəl) or monarchial (mɒˈnɑːkɪəl), adjectivemonarchally, adverbmonarchical or monarchic, adjectivemonarchically, adverb

monarchism, nounmonarchist, noun, adjectivemonarchistic, adjective

Word Origin for monarch

C15: from Late Latin monarcha, from Greek; see mono-, -arch

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