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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dynasty /ˈdɪnəsti/
▶noun (pl. dynasties) a line of hereditary rulers.
■ a succession of powerful or prominent people from the same family.
– derivatives
dynastic adjective,
dynastically adverb.
dynastic adjective,
dynastically adverb.
– origin ME: from Fr. dynastie, or via late L. from Gk dunasteia ‘lordship’, from dunastēs (see dynast).
'dynasty' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abbasid
- Achaemenid
- Almohad
- Attalid
- Bonapartism
- Capetian
- capitulary
- Carolingian
- dynast
- Fatimid
- Flavian
- Ghibelline
- Han
- house
- -id
- Kushan
- Manchu
- Merovingian
- Ming
- Mogul
- Ottoman
- Plantagenet
- Rurik
- Safavid
- Sassanian
- Saudi
- Seleucid
- Seljuk
- Sophy
- Tudor
- Varangian
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