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Monarch vs Ringer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between monarch and ringer

is that monarch is the ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy while ringer is someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

monarch

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
    • Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.
  • The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
  • Police.
  • *1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
  • *:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’

    • Usage notes

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    Synonyms

    * (ruler) autocrat, autocrator, big man, despot, dictator, , potentate, sovereign, tyrant

    Derived terms

    * monarchism * monarchist * monarchy

    Hyponyms

    * (ruler) emperor, empress, king, queen

    See also

    * (projectlink) * (Danaus plexippus) A monarch can have any of the following titles: * emperor/empress * king/queen * prince/princess * grand duke/grand duchess

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    ringer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  • * 1863 , ,
    • Pull, if ye never pull?d before;
    Good ringers , pull your best," quoth he.
  • (mining) A crowbar.
    • (Simmonds)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
  • (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably from ring the changes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
  • (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer .
    • Derived terms
    * dead ringer

    Etymology 4

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A top performer.
  • (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
  • (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
  • * 1964 , Alec Bolton, Walkabout?s Australia , , page 107,
    • The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
  • * 1987 , Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer?s Guide to the Island Continent , page 175,
    • This vast holding is run by six ringers' and six boys. A '''ringer''' is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ' ringer .
  • * 2005 , Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America , page 156,
    • Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer?s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.

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