hierarch

1. 1.

   a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy

   Broaderimportant person

   Part ofhierarchy
2. 2.

   a senior clergyman and dignitary

   Synonymsarchpriesthigh priestprelateprimate

   Broaderpriest

   NarrowerIngeJimenez de CisnerosNewmanRichelieuTutuUssherWykehamWyszynski

Other forms of hierarch

plural

hierarches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hierarch

What does hierarch mean?

hierarch means "a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hierarch?

hierarch has 2 syllables: hie-rarch. The stress falls on "hie".

What is another word for hierarch?

Close synonyms include archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hierarch a common word?

hierarch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.