English-Thai Dictionary

hierarchy

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIERARCHY

n.An order or rank of angels or celestial beings; or a subordination of holy beings. Some of the Rabbins reckon four, and others ten hierarchies, or orders of angels. 1. Constitution and government of the christian church, or ecclesiastical polity, comprehending different orders of clergy; as the hierarchy of England.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HIERARCHY

Hi "er *arch `y, n.; pl. Hierarchies. Etym: [Gr. hiérarchie.]

 

1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.

 

2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

 

3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley.

 

4. A rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons... for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hierarchy

hi er ar chy |ˈhī (ə )ˌrärkē ˈhaɪ (ə )ˌrɑrki | ▶noun ( pl. hierarchies ) a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. • (the hierarchy ) the upper echelons of a hierarchical system; those in authority: the magazine was read quite widely even by some of the hierarchy. • an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness: a taxonomic hierarchy of phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species. • (the hierarchy ) the clergy of the Catholic or Episcopal Church; the religious authorities. • Theology the traditional system of orders of angels and other heavenly beings. DERIVATIVES hi er ar chic |ˌhī (ə )ˈrärkik |adjective, hi er ar chi za tion |ˌhī (ə )ˌrärkəˈzāSHən |noun, hi er ar chize |-ˌkīz |verb ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler ’ (see hierarch ). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings ’; the other senses date from the 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

hierarchy

hierarchy |ˈhʌɪərɑːki | ▶noun ( pl. hierarchies ) a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. • (the hierarchy ) the clergy of the Catholic Church or of an episcopal Church. • (the hierarchy ) the upper echelons of a hierarchical system: the magazine was read quite widely even by some of the hierarchy. • an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness: a taxonomic hierarchy of phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species. • Theology the traditional system of orders of angels and other heavenly beings. DERIVATIVES hierarchic |-ˈrɑːkɪk |adjective, hierarchization noun, hierarchize (also hierarchise ) verb ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler ’ (see hierarch ). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings ’; the other senses date from the 17th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hierarchy

hierarchy noun in the corporate hierarchy, Curt is about six levels below the CEO: pecking order, order, ranking, chain of command, grading, gradation, ladder, scale, range.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hierarchy

hierarchy noun the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy: pecking order, ranking, grading, ladder, social order, social stratum, social scale, class system.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hierarchy

hi er ar chy /háɪ (ə )rɑ̀ː r ki /名詞 複 -chies 1 C U (組織 会社などの )階級 [階層 ]制度, ヒエラルキー .2 C 〖集合的に; 単複両扱い 〗(教会などの )上層部, 支配層, 権力者集団 .3 C ｟かたく ｠〖通例a ～ of A 〗A 〈考えなど 〉の組織化, 体系づけ .