monarch

«monarch» in Mova's school dictionary: a king or queen (or emperor or empress) who rules a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a monarch, monarchs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A monarch is a king or queen (or emperor or empress) who rules a country, usually because they were born into the royal family. tree →

2) A monarch (butterfly) is a large orange-and-black butterfly of North America that travels very long distances. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and citizenship: the British monarch, absolute monarchs, a monarchy (a country with a monarch). In science (USA, Canada): monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico.

examples

• The monarch opened Parliament with a speech. tree →
• Henry the Eighth was a famous English monarch. tree →
• The country's monarch has little real power today. tree →
• Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres. tree →
• A monarch usually inherits the throne. tree →
• We made a timeline of all the monarchs we studied. tree →
• “Give me my horn,” said the gracious monarch. tree →

note

Countable. Related: monarchy (system or country), monarchist. «Mon-» comes from Greek «one»: one ruler. Said MON-ark.

In the corpora

• Monarchs taste bad to birds because their caterpillars eat poisonous milkweed.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «monarch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.