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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#m1)

2) A monarch (butterfly) is a large orange-and-black butterfly of North America that travels very long distances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x1)
- Henry the Eighth was a famous English monarch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x2)
- The country's monarch has little real power today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x3)
- Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x4)
- A monarch usually inherits the throne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x5)
- We made a timeline of all the monarchs we studied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x6)
- “Give me my horn,” said the gracious monarch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «monarch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monarch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.