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Webster 1913 Edition
Hierarchy
Hi′er-archˊy
(hī′ẽr-ärkˊy̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Hierarchies
(hī′ẽr-ärkˊĭz)
. [Gr.
ἰεραρχία
: cf. F. hiérarchie
.] 1.
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2.
A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3.
A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
Shipley.
4.
A rank or order of holy beings.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hierarchy
HI'ERARCHY
,Noun.
1.
Constitution and government of the christian church, or ecclesiastical polity, comprehending different orders of clergy; as the hierarchy of England.Definition 2024
hierarchy
hierarchy
English
Noun
hierarchy (plural hierarchies)
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
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- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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Translations
body of authoritative officials organised by rank
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class of objects
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