dynasty

Noun
  1. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family (synset 107988029)
    is a type of: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor
    subtypes:
    • bourbon, bourbon dynasty - a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
    • capetian dynasty - a Frankish dynasty founded by Hugh Capet that ruled from 987 to 1328
    • carlovingian dynasty, carolingian dynasty - a Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 987
    • flavian dynasty - a dynasty of Roman Emperors from 69 to 96 including Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian
    • han, han dynasty - imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization
    • hanover, hanoverian line, house of hanover - the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)
    • habsburg, hapsburg - a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806
    • hohenzollern - a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia
    • house of lancaster, lancaster, lancastrian line - the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose
    • liao, liao dynasty - the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125
    • merovingian, merovingian dynasty - a Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750
    • ming, ming dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
    • ottoman, ottoman dynasty - the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I
    • plantagenet, plantagenet line - the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485
    • ptolemaic dynasty, ptolemy - an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra
    • ch'in, ch'in dynasty, qin, qin dynasty - the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
    • ch'ing, ch'ing dynasty, manchu, manchu dynasty, qing, qing dynasty - the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu
    • romanoff, romanov - the Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917
    • saxe-coburg-gotha - the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I
    • seljuk - any one of the Turkish dynasties that ruled Asia Minor from the 11th to the 13th centuries; they successfully invaded Byzantium and defended the Holy Land against Crusaders
    • shang, shang dynasty - the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
    • stuart - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714
    • song, song dynasty, sung, sung dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
    • tang, tang dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
    • house of tudor, tudor - an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)
    • omayyad, ommiad, umayyad - the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus
    • valois - French royal house from 1328 to 1589
    • wei, wei dynasty - any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556
    • house of windsor, windsor - the British royal family since 1917
    • house of york, york - the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
    • mongol dynasty, yuan, yuan dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368
    • chou, chou dynasty, chow, chow dynasty, zhou, zhou dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

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