Definition of Oligarchies

1. Noun. (plural of oligarchy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oligarchies

1. oligarchy [n] - See also: oligarchy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligarchies

olicook
olicooks
olid
olig-
oligaemia
oligaemic
oligaemic shock
oligamnios
oligandrous
oliganthous
oligarch
oligarchal
oligarchic
oligarchical
oligarchically
oligarchies (current term)
oligarchs
oligarchy
olighemia
olighidria
oligist
oligistic
oligists
oligo
oligo-
oligo-isomaltosaccharide synthase
oligoacene
oligoadenylate
oligoadenylates
oligoamine

Literary usage of Oligarchies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"Take oligarchy, for example ; are we in a position to classify the oligarchies of the Greek world which we meet with in history and refer each to its ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The class conflicts were the result of the development of oligarchies, ... This growth of oligarchies began with the Reformation, inasmuch as, ..."

3. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1885)
"IN DEMOCRACIES AND oligarchies. although, as in the former case, they observe ... For in oligarchies the rich who ' are wanted to be judges are compelled to ..."

4. Theory of Politics: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Governments, and the by Richard Hildreth (1854)
"Greek oligarchies, Aristocracies, Democracies, Tyrannies. THE line of direct descent, in the families of the Greek chieftains of the heroic age, ..."

5. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1885)
"THE VARIOUS KINDS OF oligarchies. ... The first and best attempered of oligarchies is akin to VI. 6. a constitutional government. ..."

6. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1885)
"A month or two afterwards the Athenians avenged themselves by marching into Boeotia and chastising the Thebans, when they overthrew the oligarchies in all ..."

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