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   Hi·er·ar·chy

   /ˈhī(ə)ˌrärkē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority: "the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy"
   • ▪ the clergy of the Catholic or Episcopal Church; the religious authorities: "the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Romania"
   • ▪ the upper echelons of a hierarchical system; those in authority: "the magazine was read quite widely even by some of the hierarchy"
   • ▪ an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness: "a taxonomic hierarchy of phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species"
   • ▪ the traditional system of orders of angels and other heavenly beings: "the heavenly hierarchy"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’ (see hierarch). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hierarchic adjective

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   What does hierarchy mean?

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   What is a group of people arranged in a hierarchy?

   • 1. A group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above: a career spent moving up through the military hierarchy. 2. Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades: classification by hierarchy; discounting the effects of hierarchy. 3.

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   Where does the word hierarchy come from?

   • The word hierarchy is, in fact, related to a number of governmental words in English, such as monarchy, anarchy, and oligarchy, although it itself is now very rarely used in relation to government. The word comes from the Greek hierarchēs, which was formed by combining the words hieros, meaning “supernatural, holy,” and archos, meaning. “ruler.”

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   What does hierarchy mean in astrology?

   • The earliest meaning of hierarchy in English has to do with the ranks of different types of angels in the celestial order. The idea of categorizing groups according to rank readily transferred to the organization of priestly or other governmental rule.

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