potentate
English Thesaurus
1. a ruler who is unconstrained by law (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | ruler, swayer, |
| definition | : | a person who rules or commands (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | shogun, |
| definition | : | a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | strongman, |
| definition | : | a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | baby doc, duvalier, jean-claude duvalier, |
| definition | : | son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | tojo, tojo eiki, tojo hideki, |
| definition | : | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; he was subsequently tried and executed as a war criminal (1884-1948) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, |
| definition | : | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (noun.group) |
| derivation | : | dictate, |
| definition | : | rule as a dictator (verb.social) |
| derivation | : | dictatorial, |
| definition | : | of or characteristic of a dictator (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, |
| definition | : | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (noun.group) |
| derivation | : | dictate, |
| definition | : | rule as a dictator (verb.social) |
| derivation | : | dictatorial, |
| definition | : | of or characteristic of a dictator (adj.pert) |
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