Dictator

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An absolute ruler.
  • n. A tyrant; a despot.
  • n. An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
  • n. One who dictates: These initials are those of the dictator of the letter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war
  • n. A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government
  • n. A tyrannical boss, or authority figure
  • n. A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk)
  • n. A ruler or Führer, the highest level of authority.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
  • n. One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A person possessing unlimited powers of government; an absolute ruler.
  • n. A person invested with or exercising absolute authority of any kind; one who assumes to control or prescribe the actions of others; one who dictates.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
  • n. a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
  • n. a ruler who is unconstrained by law
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    verbaliser    speaker    talker    verbalizer    utterer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crater    Creator    Decatur    Equator    Lemaitre    Mercator    Pater    Slater    amphitheater    amphitheatre   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dictatorship    despot    régime    ruler    tyrant    potentate    autocrat    diplomat    despotism    domination