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

Example sentences :

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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