Synonyms for dynasties
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dahy-nuh-stee; British also din-uh-stee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaɪ nə sti; British also ˈdɪn ə sti |
Définition of dynasties
Origin :- mid-15c. (earlier dynastia, late 14c.), from Middle French dynastie and directly from Late Latin dynastia, from Greek dynasteia "power, lordship, sovereignty," from dynastes "ruler, chief," from dynasthai "have power."
- noun area of rule
- But under the last two dynasties his gospel came to be more and more neglected.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- What an emblem, to my thinking, were they both of the dynasties they represented!
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- She, too, had found it hard to hold her attention to the Thirty-one Dynasties.
- Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
- These are the chief gods of the old kingdom—that is to say, of the first six dynasties.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- All other declarations prior to this were but for dynasties, or were ethnic at most.
- Extract from : « 'America for Americans!' » by John Philip Newman
- Dynasties may come,” he said, “and dynasties may go; but I find one always dines.
- Extract from : « The White Mice » by Richard Harding Davis
- A homely utterance, but it has virtue to overthrow all dynasties and hierarchies.
- Extract from : « The Guardian Angel » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Two dynasties had fallen before the uprising of this fierce democracy.
- Extract from : « Elsie Venner » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- After the nations had been moulded, their monarchies and dynasties were established.
- Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 » by Various
- All the dynasties of Egypt could not shape the scale on a moth's wing.
- Extract from : « Little Busybodies » by Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
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