- 1a series of rulers of a country who all belong to the same family the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty
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- 2a period of years during which members of a particular family rule a country a Ming dynasty vase
- 3a series of people from the same family who play an important role in business, politics, or another field the Rothschild banking dynasty
NAmE//daɪˈnæstɪk//
adjective [usually before noun] dynastic historySee dynasty in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: dynasty