monarch

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We've fired a monarch before, it was quite the event.

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a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

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noun

a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

noun

large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for monarch.

noun

a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

noun

large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed

Example sentences

We've fired a monarch before, it was quite the event.

" refers to the accession of a new monarch.

G+ is like the evil vizier whispering in the senile monarch's ear.

The biggest problem with Google has been that they've been a "benevolent monarch", more or less.

As a kid, it was trivial during the summer to find monarch caterpillars.

It's always a set of rights granted to you by the government, unless you are an absolute monarch yourself.

My parents' farm still has the capacity to support the hundreds of monarchs it once did, yet as far as I can tell they are gone.

The pasture was just as thick with milkweed as I remembered, but where is was once easy to find monarch caterpillars, year after year there were none to be found.

And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices.

Alternatively, we could encourage monarch butterflies to pick a less troublesome partner.

Shouldn't these be considered "The Congress's programs"?I really worry about the degree to which my fellow citizens seem to believe that the President does/should act like a monarch.

I remember catching monarch butterfly caterpillars, as a child in New York, and keeping them with milkweed stems until they formed their chrysalis and eventually "hatched" as butterflies.

The islamic revolution occurred in Iran as a direct result of the hostile actions of the CIA, who in 1953 overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed the Shah as an absolute monarch, with full authorisation from Eisenhower and Churchill.