名詞 hierarchy:

1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
   同義詞：power structure, pecking order

1. One who occupies a position of authority in a religious hierarchy.
   祭祀長，高僧，大主教掌握高級職位或有權威的宗教領袖
2. It's not as if he was very important in the company hierarchy.
   他在公司的領導層中似乎無多大權力。

hi.er.ar.chy

n.（名詞）
【復數(shù)】 hi.er.ar.chies
A body of persons having authority.
統(tǒng)治集團：掌握權威的一群人

Categorization of a group of people according to ability or status.
劃分，區(qū)分，分等級：根據(jù)能力或地位對人進行分類
The group so categorized.
等級森嚴的組織：按上述辦法劃分的集團
A series in which each element is graded or ranked:
等次：分等級或次序的一系列事物：
例句：
put honesty first in her hierarchy of values.
把誠實放在她自己的價值等次的首要地位

A body of clergy organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.
教士團：分等級的教士集團，每一級以屬于上一級的組織
Religious rule by a group of ranked clergy.
按教士等級實行的宗教統(tǒng)治
One of the divisions of angels.
天使的級別或等級

來源：
Middle English ierarchie
中古英語 ierarchie
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Medieval Latin hierarchia
源自 中世紀拉丁語 hierarchia
from Greek hierarkhia [rule of a high priest]
源自 希臘語 hierarkhia [大主教的統(tǒng)治]
from hierarkhôs [high priest] * see hierarch
源自 hierarkhôs [大主教] *參見 hierarch