HIERARCHY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

Synonyms:

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hierarchy" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Meronyms (members of "hierarchy"):

hierarch (a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy)

Holonyms ("hierarchy" is a part of...):

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

Meaning:

A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

Example:

put honesty first in her hierarchy of values

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hierarchy" is a kind of...):

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hierarchy"):

celestial hierarchy (the collective body of angels)

data hierarchy (an arrangement of data consisting of sets and subsets such that every subset of a set is of lower rank than the set)

taxonomy (a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc)

Holonyms ("hierarchy" is a part of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

Derivation:

hierarchical (classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers)