Definition for Hierarchy:

• Rule in sacred things; the persons who so rule as a body; hierarchic government.

Synonyms for Hierarchy:

• n.

  •
  • argyle,
  • authority,
  • regime,
  • array,
  • check,
  • articulation,
  • theocracy,
  • chronology,
  • arrangement,
  • coloration,
  • configuration,
  • government,
  • arabesque,
  • column.
  •
  • body,
  • corps,
  • board,
  • army,
  • coalition,
  • committee,
  • clinic,
  • consortium,
  • cabal.
  •
  • birth,
  • the bourgeoisie,
  • beneath,
  • background,
  • classless,
  • beginnings,
  • class-conscious,
  • classism,
  • bourgeois.
  •apparatus (noun)
  • network,
  • setup.
  •class (noun)
  • descent,
  • clan,
  • property,
  • style,
  • pigeonhole,
  • temperament,
  • division,
  • ancestry,
  • influence,
  • caliber,
  • title,
  • stock,
  • caste,
  • clique,
  • description,
  • club,
  • collection,
  • grain,
  • company,
  • character,
  • designation,
  • classification,
  • department,
  • state,
  • moiety,
  • selection,
  • coterie,
  • value,
  • frame,
  • stripe,
  • lineage,
  • mold,
  • genre,
  • status,
  • condition,
  • sect,
  • variety,
  • branch,
  • quality,
  • league,
  • cast,
  • feather,
  • prestige,
  • genus,
  • rate,
  • brand,
  • grade,
  • species,
  • standing,
  • place,
  • source,
  • strain,
  • suit,
  • origin,
  • stratum,
  • denomination,
  • genealogy,
  • color,
  • circle,
  • nature,
  • estate,
  • derivation,
  • domain,
  • distinction,
  • degree,
  • set,
  • name,
  • extraction,
  • breed,
  • section,
  • make,
  • ilk,
  • province,
  • pedigree,
  • range,
  • sphere,
  • connection,
  • Family,
  • station.
  •executive (noun)
  • ceo,
  • brass,
  • big wheel,
  • administrator,
  • head,
  • higher-up,
  • chief,
  • businessperson,
  • officer,
  • skipper,
  • entrepreneur,
  • management,
  • official,
  • vip,
  • governor,
  • tycoon,
  • boss,
  • leadership,
  • commander,
  • leader,
  • administration,
  • industrialist,
  • EXEC,
  • manager,
  • director.
  •pecking order (noun)
  • dominance,
  • Social Hierarchies,
  • social ladder,
  • social stratification,
  • Social Hierarchy,
  • social structure,
  • social pyramid,
  • rankings,
  • food chain,
  • placings,
  • due order,
  • line of dominance,
  • class structure,
  • corporate ladder.
  •power structure (noun)
  • powers that be,
  • managerial hierarchy,
  • corridors of power,
  • ruling class,
  • power elite,
  • status system,
  • ruling classes.
  •rank (noun)
  • file,
  • paramountcy,
  • cachet,
  • stature,
  • esteem,
  • capacity,
  • blood,
  • group,
  • formation,
  • privilege,
  • footing,
  • queue,
  • string,
  • note,
  • supremacy,
  • echelon,
  • seniority,
  • row,
  • sovereignty,
  • situation,
  • primacy,
  • level,
  • parentage,
  • dignity,
  • series,
  • consequence,
  • reputation,
  • circumstance.
  •scale (noun)
  • proportion,
  • spectrum,
  • rule,
  • gradation,
  • sequence,
  • scope,
  • progression,
  • steps,
  • ratio,
  • extent,
  • gamut,
  • way,
  • reach,
  • register,
  • spread,
  • degrees,
  • computation.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • position.
  •n.
  • apparatus,
  • bourgeoisie,
  • calibration,
  • class,
  • co,
  • cos,
  • directorate,
  • executive,
  • head honcho,
  • heavyweight,
  • hierarchy,
  • humor,
  • intelligentsia,
  • kidney,
  • ladder,
  • nobility,
  • order,
  • pecking order,
  • rank,
  • scale,
  • school,
  • social rank,
  • supervisor,
  • tier,
  • top brass,
  • Kidneys,
  • higher up,
  • Calibrations,
  • CEOS,
  • ladders,
  • genres,
  • directorates,
  • chain of command,
  • bourgeoisies,
  • cultural level,
  • head person,
  • intelligentsias,
  • key player,
  • the right stuff.
  •Other relevant words:
  • apartheid,
  • arena,
  • bureaucracy,
  • component,
  • constraint,
  • effect,
  • element,
  • equilibrium,
  • establishment,
  • goal,
  • graph,
  • power structure,
  • structure,
  • system,
  • Boundaries,
  • Hierarchies,
  • bureaucracies,
  • demarcations,
  • corporatist.

Paraphrases for Hierarchy:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    high-ranking, senior.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    chiefs, heads, pyramid, ladder, classification, precedence, structure, high-ranking, grading, high-level, authority.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    ranking, hierarchical.
  • Proper noun, singular
    hierarchical.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    ranking, seniority, prioritization, hierarchical, prioritisation, leadership, order.

Hierarchy Sentence Examples:

• I had no yearning for puppetship, however exalted the title or sonorous the fame; but to be the power that selects the king - puppet of the political puppet - hierarchy, to be the power that selects and rules him, - that was the logical development of my career.

• I have never liked Calvaster, he said, and if I had been in the city to consider recommendations for appointments he would, assuredly, never have become a member of Rome's hierarchy.

Holonyms for Hierarchy:

• n.

  • group
    scheme, system.

Hypernym for Hierarchy:

• n.

  • group
    taxonomy, celestial hierarchy, data hierarchy.

Hyponym for Hierarchy:

• n.

  • group
    series.