Synonyms of hierarchies

hierarchies

noun

plural of hierarchy

as in ladders

a scheme of rank or order

honesty sits at the top of my hierarchy of values

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ladders
• rankings
• scales
• orderings
• series
• sequences
• levels
• graduations
• arrays
• distributions
• degrees
• echelons
• food chains
• statuses
• arrangements
• situations
• positions
• setups
• places
• rungs
• disposals
• footings
• standings
• dispositions
• stations
• pecking orders
• spots
• reaches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hierarchies

To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026

As muscles disappear and social hierarchies collapse, Jim embarks on a wild, campy quest to find a cure before his life falls apart completely. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026

To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few. — Hilary Gowins, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026

The result is a club conceived without the hierarchies that characterize some of its London counterparts—members shaped not by title or industry, but by curiosity and shared sensibility. — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 21 June 2026

But this divine similarity evidently did nothing to preclude slavery, patriarchy, and the many other social hierarchies depicted elsewhere in the Bible. — Teresa M. Bejan, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Gary Hamel, whose work on humanocracy is among the most rigorous on this subject, has spent decades demonstrating that most hierarchies reward positioning over contribution, politics over performance. — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

Nevertheless—as Rooney often captures well in her novels—the reason that sharing life with men can feel like slow violence is ultimately not the men themselves (not in many cases, at least) but, rather, the hierarchies that, flowing through us all, elevate them and suffocate us. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

How the stock trades in its first weeks will ripple across private markets, impacting valuation benchmarks for Anthropic and OpenAI, rearranging Silicon Valley’s implicit venture-fund hierarchies, and determining how much mainstream capital other space-tech companies can attract in SpaceX’s wake. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026