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Hierarchy



noun — Plural: Hierarchies
1.
(a group arranged in order of rank, grade, etc., the officials in such a system) លំដាប់សក្ដិ, ក្រម, លំដាប់តំណែង
2.
(បច្ចេកទេស) ឋានានុក្រម
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Hierarchies
1.
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2.
A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3.
A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
4.
A rank or order of holy beings.