Noun: monarch
| Singular | monarch |
| Plural | monarchs |
Sample Sentences
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Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty. [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:]
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But I know the monarchs are close by, their orange-and-black wings folded, dusted, and baked by heat, ready to flee south. [2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 223:]
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‘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.”’ [1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics, published 2012, page 41:]
Nouns inflected like monarch
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek μονάρχης (monárkhēs), variant of μόναρχος (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”), equivalent to mono- + -arch.
2. * (butterfly): See monarch butterfly. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
μονάρχης'.
Verbs referencing "monarch"
Finnish Nouns
monarkki, Irish Nouns
monarc.