different between monarch vs serf

English

Etymology

From Middle French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek ???????? (monárkh?s), variant of ???????? (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from '????? (mónos, “only”) + ????? (arkhós, “leader”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n?k/, /?m?n??k/

Noun

monarch (plural monarchs)

1. The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene II, line 25.

     Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.

2. The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
3. (Aboriginal English) A police officer.
   • 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics 2012, p. 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.”’

4. (often capitalised) A stag which has sixteen or more points or tines on its antlers.
5. The chief or best thing of its kind.

Usage notes

See monarchy.

Synonyms

• (ruler): autocrat, autocrator, big man, despot, dictator, Führer, potentate, sovereign, tyrant

Hyponyms

• (ruler): emperor, empress, king, queen

Derived terms

• African monarch (Danaus chrysippus)
• Biak monarch (Symposiachrus brehmii))
• frilled monarch (Arses telescopthalmus)
• golden monarch (Carterornis chrysomela)
• monarch flycatcher (Monarchidae spp.)
• monarchical
• monarchism
• monarchist
• monarchy

Translations

References

• Monarch butterfly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Danaus plexippus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

A monarch can have any of the following titles:

• emperor/empress
• king/queen
• prince/princess
• grand duke/grand duchess

Anagrams

• chroman, nomarch

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch monarcha, from Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek ???????? (monárkh?s), variant of ???????? (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from '????? (mónos, “only”) + ????? (arkhós, “leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??n?rx/
• Hyphenation: mo?narch
• Rhymes: -?rx

Noun

monarch m (plural monarchen, diminutive monarchje n)

1. monarch

Derived terms

• monarchaal
• monarchie
• monarchvlinder

English

Etymology

From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), perhaps of Etruscan origin

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s?f/
• Homophone: surf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)f

Noun

serf (plural serfs)

1. a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights
2. a similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe
3. (strategy games) a worker unit

   Synonyms: peasant, peon, villager

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• slave

Anagrams

• ESRF, FERS, RFEs, Refs, erfs, f***ers, refs

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin servus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?se?f/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?serf/

Noun

serf m (plural serfs, feminine serva)

1. serf

Related terms

• servitud

Further reading

• “serf” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus.

Noun

serf m (plural serven, diminutive serfje n)

1. a serf (semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him)

   Synonyms: horige, laat, lijfeigene

French

Etymology

From Middle French serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (predominant) /s??f/, (rarely) /s??/
• Homophones: cerf, sers, sert

Noun

serf m (plural serfs, feminine serve)

1. a serf (semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him)

Adjective

serf (feminine singular serve, masculine plural serfs, feminine plural serves)

1. being or like a serf, semifree

Related terms

Further reading

• “serf” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• fers

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French cerf.

Noun

serf

1. deer

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French serf.

Noun

serf m (plural serfs)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

Descendants

• French: serf

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin servus.

Noun

serf m (oblique plural sers, nominative singular sers, nominative plural serf)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

Descendants

• Middle French: serf
  • French: serf
• ? English: serf

Etymology 2

See servir

Verb

serf

1. first-person singular present indicative of servir

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French cerf.

Noun

serf

1. deer

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français