1. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

Hyponyms: Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty, Capetian dynasty, Carolingian dynasty, Carlovingian dynasty, Flavian dynasty, Han, Han dynasty, Hanover, House of Hanover, Hanoverian line, Habsburg, Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Lancaster, House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line, Liao, Liao dynasty, Merovingian, Merovingian dynasty, Ming, Ming dynasty, Ottoman, Ottoman dynasty, Plantagenet, Plantagenet line, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty, Qing, Qing dynasty, Ch'ing, Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu, Manchu dynasty, Romanov, Romanoff, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Seljuk, Shang, Shang dynasty, Stuart, Sung, Sung dynasty, Song, Song dynasty, Tang, Tang dynasty, Tudor, House of Tudor, Umayyad, Ommiad, Omayyad, Valois, Wei, Wei dynasty, Windsor, House of Windsor, York, House of York, Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty, Zhou, Zhou dynasty, Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow, Chow dynasty