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Definition of Oligarch
1. Noun. One of the rulers in an oligarchy.
Definition of Oligarch
1. n. A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
Definition of Oligarch
1. Noun. A member of an oligarchy, someone who is part of a small group that runs a country. ¹
2. Noun. A very rich person (especially in Russia). ¹
3. Noun. (cosmogony) A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oligarch
1. a ruler in a government by the few [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligarch
Literary usage of Oligarch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"seemed to the oligarch an unanswerable argument for his permanent exclusion ...
Moral claims of the oligarch. The oligarch based his claim on other grounds. ..."
2. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"seemed to the oligarch an unanswerable argument for his permanent exclusion ...
Moral claims of the oligarch. The oligarch based his claim on other grounds. ..."
3. The Characters of Theophrastus by Theophrastus (1902)
"Characters of Theophrastus xxvi "The oligarch o ... The oligarch rises in the
people's councils, when assistants to the archon are elected for the ..."
4. The Characters of Theophrastus: Illustrated by Physiognomical Sketches. To by Theophrastus, Isaac Taylor (1836)
"40 The oligarch 41 Head of a Rhinoceros .... 42 The Malignant ..... 43 The Sophist .
. . 44 Profile of an Idiot ..... 45 Head of a Girl . ..."
5. Plato's Republic: the Greek text by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Lewis Campbell (1894)
"These numbers are obtained in the following manner. The oligarch is in the third
remove from true pleasure ; the king has the pleasure of wisdom ..."
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