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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A member of a small governing faction.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A member of an oligarchy; one of a few holding political power.
  2. In botany, having a few centripetally developed xylem plates: said of some radial vascular cylinders.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A member of an oligarchy, someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
  2. n. A very rich person (especially in Russia).
  3. n. A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one of the rulers in an oligarchy

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ὀλίγοι (oligoi, "few") + ἀρχή (arkhē, "rule"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek oligarkhēs : oligos, few + -arkhēs, -arch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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