詞源

源自中古英語 、，源自古法語 、，源自晚期拉丁語 ，源自拉丁語 ，源自古希臘語 (hierarkhía, “（大祭司的）统治”)，源自 (hierárkhēs, “大祭司”)，源自 (hierós, “神圣的”) + (árkhō, “统治”)。受到古典拉丁语的影响，约1500年时“h”被重新添加。

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• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, /ˈhaɪ.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/

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1. （有官位层级的）统治集团
   • 2013 8月 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, 出自 , 卷 408, 期 8848:

     The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

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2. 等級制度，層級制度，層次結構，階層
   • 2023 6月 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat‎:

     Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.

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3. 有等級制度的事物
   • 2017 6月 1, Peter Mark Adams, The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, Scarlet Imprint, →ISBN，頁號 158:

     ... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary […]

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