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hierarchy
[hahy-uh-rahr-kee, hahy-rahr-]
noun
plural
hierarchiesany system of persons or things ranked one above another.
government by ecclesiastical rulers.
the power or dominion of a hierarch.
an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders.
the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
one of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as constituting a graded body.
Also called celestial hierarchy.the collective body of angels.
government by an elite group.
Linguistics.the system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic.
hierarchy
/ ˈɪəˌɑːɪ /
noun
a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order
a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks
the collective body of those so organized
a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into classes, orders, families, etc
linguistics maths a formal structure, usually represented by a diagram of connected nodes, with a single uppermost element Compare ordering heterarchy tree
government by an organized priesthood
Other 51Թ Forms
- antihierarchy noun
- ˌˈ adverb
- ˈˌ noun
- ˌˈ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hierarchy1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hierarchy1
Example Sentences
A military source said the departure was "strategic" and "at the request of the hierarchy", the news agency reported.
Not everyone defines success as a straight shot to the top of the corporate hierarchy, as Grede implies.
The girl is from the Dalit community, which is at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy.
Add the examples from psychology and the bungle we're making of the Earth we "manage," and humans don't have good evidence to put ourselves at the top of some kind of evolutionary hierarchy after all.
Ancelotti envisions a technical staff built not around a strict hierarchy of "manager" and "assistant," but a group of five or six specialists, each focused on a specific area of the game.
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