| AUTARCHY | • autarchy n. A condition of absolute power. • autarchy n. Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person). • autarchy n. Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence). |
| DINARCHY | • dinarchy n. Alternative form of diarchy. • DINARCHY n. government by two powers, also DIARCHY, DUARCHY, DYARCHY. |
| ENDARCHY | • endarchy n. A system in which decision-making is centralized. • endarchy n. (Botany) A vascular system in which development starts nearest the axis center and spreads outward. • ENDARCHY n. the condition of being endarch. |
| GYNARCHY | • gynarchy n. (Politics, countable) A government ruled by a woman or women. • gynarchy n. (Politics, uncountable) Government by a woman or women. • GYNARCHY n. government by women. |
| HEXARCHY | • hexarchy n. A group of six states. • HEXARCHY n. a group of six separate states. |
| HOLARCHY | • holarchy n. (Philosophy) A connection between holons (things that are both a part and a whole). • HOLARCHY n. a system of interacting holons. |
| MONARCHY | • monarchy n. A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state… • monarchy n. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom. • monarchy n. A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy… |
| NAVARCHY | • navarchy n. The office or state of a navarch. • NAVARCHY n. rulership over the seas. |
| NOMARCHY | • nomarchy n. Nome. • NOMARCHY n. (Greek) a province of modern Greece, also NOME. |
| OCTARCHY | • octarchy n. A group of eight states. • octarchy n. A government of eight people. • OCTARCHY n. a government by eight people. |
| SYNARCHY | • synarchy n. Joint rule or sovereignty. • SYNARCHY n. joint sovereignty. |
| THEARCHY | • thearchy n. A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy. • thearchy n. A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.) • THEARCHY n. rule by a God. |
| TOPARCHY | • toparchy n. A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch. • TOPARCHY n. the territory of a toparch. |
| TRIARCHY | • triarchy n. Government by three persons; a triumvirate. • triarchy n. A country under three rulers. • TRIARCHY n. a government by three persons. |