noun. A group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.

noun. Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades.

noun. A body of persons having authority.

noun. A group of animals in which certain members or subgroups dominate or submit to others.

noun. One of three main divisions of angels in traditional Christian angelology.

noun. The power or dominion of a hierarch; hallowed or consecrated authority in what concerns religious order or government.

noun. Government by ecclesiastical rulers; an ecclesiastical or priestly form of government. —

noun. An order of holy beings regarded as employed in divine government.

noun. A body of persons organized in ranks and orders for the exercise of rule oversacred things; hence, an organized body of ecclesiastics intrusted with government of either church or state; also, a similarly organized body of officials in other systems of government: as, the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

noun. In science, a series of successive terms of different rank. The terms kingdom, order, suborder, family, genus, and species constitute a hierarchy in zoölogy.

noun. Dominion or authority in sacred things.

noun. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

noun. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

noun. A rank or order of holy beings.

noun. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation.

noun. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

noun. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

noun. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

noun. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

"The label hierarchy couldn't have been that disgruntled."

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