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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɒnək/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɑnɚk/, /ˈmɑnɑɹk/

名詞

monarch (plural monarchs)

1. The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 25:

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

2. A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 223:

     But I know the monarchs are close by, their orange-and-black wings folded, dusted, and baked by heat, ready to flee south.

3. (Aboriginal English) A police officer.
   • 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics, published 2012, page 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.
6. Any bird of the family Monarchidae.

   Synonym: monarch flycatcher

使用する際の注意点

See monarchy.

同意語

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

下位語

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

派生語

参照

• 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

アナグラム

• chroman, march on, nomarch