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Definition: Dynasty |
DynastyNoun1. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dynasty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Dynasty \Dy"nas*ty\, noun; plural Dynasties. [Greek expression lordship, from to hold power or lordship: compare to the French expression dynastie dynasty. See Dynast.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate, protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature, magistracy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A dynasty is a family or extended family which retains political power across generations, or more generally, any organization which extends dominance in its field even as its particular members change.
China was ruled by a series of dynasties dating back to the Xia until the Cultural Revolution.
Though in democratic governments rule does not pass automatically by inheritance, political power often accrues to generations of related individuals; see, for example, the list of dynasties in US politics, which includes the Kennedys, Bushes, and Adamses.
In its more general sense, the term is often applied to sports teams, though sometimes the period of dominance is measured in years, not decades or centuries as with politics. John Wooden led a college basketball dynasty at UCLA in the 1960s and 1970s. In modern professional sports, it usually only takes a three-peat to qualify for dynasty status in the typical hyperbole of sports journalism. The Los Angeles Lakers are a recent example.
A better example in sports might be the New York Renaissance, one of the few cases when an entire team was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Dynasty was a TV soap opera.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dynasty."
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Screenplays | Your seed like yourselves will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) You don't meet a girl like that every dynasty! (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) Late 14th Ming Dynasty. Oh it breaks the heart! (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles) | |
Lyrics | Hov', unstoppable, Dynasty, young Hova (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dynasty Warriors 4 (2003) Death of a Dynasty (2003) Inside the Murdoch Dynasty (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Old woman representing "defeat" spoons off "Hohenzollern dynasty" from cauldron of "Germany". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Is to procure a dynasty. |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. |
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Business | The Ultolmok is a historically famous site where Admiral Lee, Sun-shin of Choson dynasty fought against Japanese invaders, overpowering them by utilizing the tidal power of the narrow bay. In addition to Ultolmok, industry sources indicate that there are many other sites suitable for tidal power farms in South and North Korea along the western and southern coastal areas. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | In 939 AD, Vietnam achieved independence under a native dynasty. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan's most noted tourist sights date from the Timurid dynasty. (references) | |
Oman | His dynasty, the Al Sa'id, was founded about 250 years ago by Imam Ahmed bin Sa'id. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Osu, around the corner from Regal, and 3 blocks from Dynasty. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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| "Dynasty" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dynasty" is used about 475 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 100% | 475 | 12,481 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | First Dynasty Mines Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "dynasty": carolingian dynasty ♦ ch'ing dynasty ♦ Chou dynasty ♦ chow dynasty ♦ Han dynasty ♦ Liao dynasty ♦ manchu dynasty ♦ Ming dynasty ♦ mongol dynasty ♦ Qing dynasty ♦ ruling dynasty ♦ shang dynasty ♦ song dynasty ♦ sung dynasty ♦ tang dynasty ♦ Wei dynasty ♦ Yuan dynasty ♦ Zhou dynasty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dynasty": dynasty-style. | |
Ending with "dynasty": ming-dynasty, sub-dynasty, twelfth-dynasty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dynasty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dinasti (house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سلالة حاكمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | династия (house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 朝代 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dynastie (house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سلسله (Catena, Chain, Flight, Genealogy, Gradation, Phylum, Rank, Run, String, System, Train), خاندان پادشاهان , ال , دودمان (Ancestry, Antecedent, Genealogy, Lineage, Pedigree, Phylum, Progeny, Stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hallitsijasuku (reigning house, ruling family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dynastie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dynastie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυναστεία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שושלת (ancestry, family tree, genealogy, pedigree), "י סטי", בית מלוכ" (monarchy, royal family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | uralkodóház (house), dinasztia (dynast, house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dinasti, keturunan raja, ahala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dinastia (house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 王朝 , 治世 (peaceful times, regime, reign, rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おうちょう, ちせい (intelligence, peaceful times, regime, reign, rule, topography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 왕조 (Dynasties). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | reeraghtys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ynastyday dinastia. (various references) dinastie (house). (various references) династия (house). (various references) dinastija. (various references) dinastía. (various references) dynasti. (various references) ราชวงศ์ (regality, royal family). (various references) sülale (family, lineage, stirpes, stirps), hanedan (dynastic, heraldic). (various references) династія. (various references) triều vua, triều đại (reign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | dynasteia. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Dynasty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dinasty, Dinnasty, dycast, Dyenasty, dynastid, dyntasty, Wynstay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dynasty" (pronounced dī"nustē) |
| 5 | -n u s t ē | amnesty, dishonesty, honesty. |
| 4 | -u s t ē | majesty, modesty, travesty. |
| 3 | -s t ē | angioplasty, Beastie, bloodthirsty, Christie, Christy, crusty, dusty, feisty, frosty, gusty, hasty, lusty, misty, musty, nasty, rusty, sixty, tasty, testy, thirsty, trusty, twisty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-s-t-y-y" | |
-1 letter: dynast. | |
-2 letters: antsy, nasty, sandy, stand, tansy. | |
-3 letters: ands, ants, days, nays, sand, stay, tads, tans, yays. | |
-4 letters: ads, and, ant, any, ays, day, nay, sad, sat, say, sty, syn, tad, tan, tas, yay. | |
-5 letters: ad, an, as, at, ay, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-s-t-y-y" | |
+3 letters: syndactyly. | |
+5 letters: dynastically, syndactylies, syndactylism, syndetically. | |
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