Ringleader vs Monarch - What's the difference?
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a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group
a person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang
* The police arrested the ringleaders of the smuggling operation.
* (1590): William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 : A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, / Under the countenance and confederacy / Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, / The ringleader and head of all this rout, / Have practis'd dangerously against your state...
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.
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.”’
As nouns the difference between ringleader and monarch
is that ringleader is a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group while monarch is the ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.ringleader
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(en noun)monarch
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(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.