different between presidency vs monarchy

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin praesidentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?d?nsi/

Noun

presidency (countable and uncountable, plural presidencies)

1. The office or role of president.

   After many years as a party leader, she finally ascended to the presidency.
2. The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.

   Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.

3. The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.

   In France, a presidency lasts for five years.

   Ernest was a historian specializing in the presidency of Herbert Hoover.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French monarchie, from Late Latin monarchia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (monarkhía), from ????? (mónos, “only”) + ???? (arkh?, “power, authority”). Surface analysis: mon- (“one”, “single”) +? -archy (“rule”, “command”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n?ki/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?n?ki/
• Hyphenation: mon?ar?chy

Noun

monarchy (countable and uncountable, plural monarchies)

1. 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).

   An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.

   A constitutional monarchy is a monarchy in which the monarch's power is legally constrained, ranging from where minor concessions have been made to appease certain factions to where the monarch is a figurehead with all real power in the hands of a legislative body.

2. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
3. 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.
4. States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.

Usage notes

Historically refers to a wide variety of systems with a single, nominally absolute ruler (compare autocracy, dictatorship), today primarily refers to and connotes a traditional, hereditary position, often with mainly symbolic power. Typically used of rulers who use the terms king/queen or emperor/empress.

Synonyms

• (rule): See Thesaurus:government
• (state): kingdom

Coordinate terms

• See Thesaurus:government

Related terms

• monarch
• monarchic

Translations

See also

• Category:en:Monarchy

Anagrams

• nomarchy

Polish

Noun

monarchy

1. genitive singular of monarcha