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monarchy
noun
[ ˈmɒnəki ]
• a form of government with a monarch at the head.
Similar:
kingship
,
sovereignty
,
autocracy
,
monocracy
,
absolutism
, absolute power,
despotism
, royalism,
monarchism
,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French monarchie, via late Latin from Greek monarkhia ‘the rule of one’.