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noun

Monarch n.

A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. "He who reigns Monarch in heaven,... upheld by old repute."

One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

A patron deity or presiding genius. "Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus."

(Zool.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); called also milkweed butterfly and monarch butterfly.

adjective

Monarch adj. Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling. "Monarch savage."

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Etymology of 'Monarch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monarch" Quotes from Famous Books

... close-lipped once, not given to levity and—to toddy. There, there, he is my friend as well as yours, and I will prove it by pushing his cause in Virginia. Is yours Scotch anger? Then the devil fend me from it. A monarch would have given him fifty thousand acres on the Wabash, a palace, and a sufficient annuity. Virginia has given him a sword, eight thousand wild acres to be sure, repudiated the debts of his army, and left him to starve. Is there no room for a genius in our ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... family means everywhere the antiquity either of wealth, or of that greatness which is commonly either founded upon wealth, or accompanied with it. Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness. The hatred of usurpers, the love of the family of an ancient monarch, are in a great measure founded upon the contempt which men naturally have for the former, and upon their veneration for the latter. As a military officer submits, without reluctance, to the authority of a superior by whom he has always been commanded, but cannot bear that his inferior should ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... was assembled, and arrest the leaders of the party who were opposed to him. There were five of them who were specially prominent. The queen believed that if these five men were seized and imprisoned in the Tower, the rest would be intimidated and overawed, and the monarch's lost authority and power ...

— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott

... to admire the wild magnificence of the spectacle. Great red tongues of flame shot up through the blanket of dark smoke, dying it crimson. Occasionally there would be a dull crash as some huge forest monarch fell prostrate, or the dying scream of some creature overtaken by the ...

— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... lofty Jutt of Bern Bound to his side his glaive, And away to the monarch's house he rode With the knights a fray ...

— The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne - a Ballad • Anonymous

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