noun
Meaning 1
A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Habsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: house, succession
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: house, succession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A family considered over time, with its ancestors and descendants
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: clan, house, lineage
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: East Asian history
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
Narrower terms: Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty, Capetian dynasty, Carolingian dynasty, Carlovingian dynasty, Flavian dynasty, Han, Han dynasty, Hanover, House of Hanover, Hanoverian line, Habsburg, Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Lancaster, House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line, Liao, Liao dynasty, Merovingian, Merovingian dynasty, Ming, Ming dynasty, Ottoman, Ottoman dynasty, Plantagenet, Plantagenet line, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty, Qin, Qin dynasty, Ch'in, Ch'in dynasty, Qing, Qing dynasty, Ch'ing, Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu, Manchu dynasty, Romanov, Romanoff, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Seljuk, Shang, Shang dynasty, Stuart, Sung, Sung dynasty, Song, Song dynasty, Tang, Tang dynasty, Tudor, House of Tudor, Umayyad, Ommiad, Omayyad, Valois, Wei, Wei dynasty, Windsor, House of Windsor, York, House of York, Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty, Zhou, Zhou dynasty, Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow, Chow dynasty
History
Borrowed from Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).
Across languages
149 source translations are retained for this English entry.