Noun: dynasty
| Singular | dynasty |
| Plural | dynasties |
Sample Sentences
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Habsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty
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A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery. [2023, Stewart Stafford, A Wager After Midnight]
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Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. [2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. [2016, Criss Jami, Healology]
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During the Ming dynasty, China was ruled by the Zhu family.
Nouns inflected like dynasty
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
δυναστεία'.
Verbs referencing "dynasty"
Hungarian Nouns
dinasztia.