Pharaoh vs Monarch - What's the difference?
pharaoh | monarch |
The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
(uncountable) The card game faro.
* 1945 , Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold
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.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
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*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.”’
As nouns the difference between pharaoh and monarch
is that pharaoh is the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty while monarch is the ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.pharaoh
English
(wikipedia pharaoh)Alternative forms
* pharaoNoun
(en noun)- "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.
Derived terms
* pharoah ant * pharaonicmonarch
English
Noun
(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.