hierarchy

1. n. Dominion or authority in sacred things. Source: opted

2. n. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. Source: opted

3. n. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Source: opted

4. n. A rank or order of holy beings. Source: opted

5. n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system Source: wordnet

6. n. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body Source: wordnet

7. 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things. 2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. 3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley. 4. A rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton. Source: webster

8. n:100 n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system n. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body Source: ecdict

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