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Meaning of "hierocrat" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIEROCRAT

hierocrat  [ˈhaɪərəˌkræt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIEROCRAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hierocrat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HIEROCRAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hierocrat in the English dictionary

The definition of hierocrat in the dictionary is a person who believes in government by religious leaders.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIEROCRAT


aristocrat
ˈærɪstəˌkræt
autocrat
ˈɔːtəˌkræt
bureaucrat
ˈbjʊərəˌkræt
cosmocrat
ˈkɒzməˌkræt
democrat
ˈdɛməˌkræt
eurocrat
ˈjʊərəˌkræt
gerontocrat
dʒɛˈrɒntəˌkræt
millocrat
ˈmɪləˌkræt
mobocrat
ˈmɒbəˌkræt
ochlocrat
ˈɒkləˌkræt
pantisocrat
pænˈtɪsəˌkræt
pedantocrat
pɪˈdæntəˌkræt
phallocrat
ˈfæləˌkræt
plutocrat
ˈpluːtəˌkræt
privocrat
ˈpraɪvəˌkræt
slavocrat
ˈsleɪvəˌkræt
stratocrat
ˈstrætəˌkræt
superbureaucrat
ˈsuːpərˌbjʊərəˌkræt
thalassocrat
θəˈlæsəˌkræt
theocrat
ˈθɪəˌkræt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIEROCRAT

hierocracies
hierocracy
hierocratic
hierocratical
hierodule
hierodulic
hieroglyph
hieroglyphic
hieroglyphical
hieroglyphically
hieroglyphics
hieroglyphist
hierogram
hierogrammat
hierogrammate
hierogrammatic
hierogrammatist
hierograph
hierographer
hierographic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIEROCRAT

Blue Dog Democrat
Christian Democrat
Defeaticrat
Dixiecrat
Liberal Democrat
meritocrat
monocrat
physiocrat
scrat
securocrat
social democrat
technocrat

Synonyms and antonyms of hierocrat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hierocrat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIEROCRAT

Find out the translation of hierocrat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hierocrat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hierocrat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hierocrat
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hierocrat
570 millions of speakers

English

hierocrat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hierocrat
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hierocrat
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hierocrat
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hierocrat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hierocrat
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hierocrat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hierokrat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hierocrat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hierocrat
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hierocrat
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hierokrat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hierocrat
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hierocrat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हिरेरोक्रॅट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hierocrat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hierocrat
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hierocrat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hierocrat
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hierocrat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hierocrat
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hierocrat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hierocrat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hierocrat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hierocrat

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIEROCRAT»

The term «hierocrat» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.416 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIEROCRAT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hierocrat» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hierocrat» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hierocrat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIEROCRAT»

Discover the use of hierocrat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hierocrat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Heaven
All Second-Best Sailor wants is to sail his boat and trade with the wandering Neanderthals.
Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, 2009
2
The Tibetan History Reader
It is to be noted that the idea of the bodhisattva-king or hierocrat is by no means reducible to that of theocracy, the Aryabodhisattva—who has entered the transworldly Path of Awakening (Iokottaraméirga = 'j'ig rten Ias 'das pa'i lam, starting with ...
Gray Tuttle, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, 2013
3
Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in ...
The main problem here was that the author appeared to be a papal hierocrat whose language echoed Pope Boniface VIII's bull Unam sanctam (1302), promulgated at about the time that Tolomeo, one of the few contemporary republicans with ...
Daniel Ethan Bornstein, David Spencer Peterson, 2008
4
The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages: The ...
Neither hierocrat, anti- hierocrat nor Thomist doubted that the Ecclesia had the nature of a universal, but the different opinions of the reality of universals seriously affected the character of this society. The reality of universals corresponded to ...
Michael Wilks, 2008
5
Between worlds
"As the captain said, if you ask for that I imagine it will be granted, though the Hierocrat's teeth will curl with anxiety." Tahget growled, "Your Hierocrat will have more to think about than that." He grabbed Futurity's wrist in one massive hand.
Robert Silverberg, 2004
6
Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four
'As the Captain said, if you ask for that I imagine it will be granted, though the Hierocrat's teeth will curl with anxiety.' Tahget growled, 'Your Hierocrat will have more to think about than that.' He grabbed Futurity's wrist in one massive hand.
Stephen Baxter, 2009
7
Parallelism in Revolution
As Weber (1946) notes, “the hierocrat no longer rules by virtue of purely personal qualities . . . . [the successor] has been legitimized by an act of charismatic election. The process of routinization . . . has set in” (p. 297). At PARALLELISM IN  ...
Matthew C. Wells, 2005
8
The Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early ...
Josephus, often despite his own protestations, was also an ardent hierocrat ( albeit avant1alettre);?11 so too, and far less reservedly, were men otherwise as far apart as the anonymous author(s) of the Testament of Judah and Philo of ...
Stuart A. Cohen, 2007
9
The Savage Republic: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism ...
According to the arch-hierocrat Innocent IV (1243–54): 'The Pope has jurisdiction over all men and power over them in law but not in fact.' Robert A. Williams, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest ...
Eric Michael Wilson, 2008
10
Parallelism: A Handbook of Social Analysis: The Study of ...
As Weber (1946) notes, “the hierocrat no longer rules by virtue of purely personal qualities. . . . [the successor] has been legitimized by an act of charismatic election. The process of routinization . . . has set in” (p. 297). At this critical juncture, ...
Matthew C. Wells, 2002

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIEROCRAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hierocrat is used in the context of the following news items.
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Thousands March In Turkey For Slain Journalist
In my opinion these demonstrators who are demonstrating in support of the Armenian journalist are hierocrat and terrorist left wing organization ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jan 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hierocrat [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hierocrat>. May 2024 ».
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