dictator

English Thesaurus

1. a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner (noun.person)

hypernym	:	oppressor,
definition	:	a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures (noun.person)

hyponym	:	big brother,
definition	:	an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy (noun.person)

hyponym	:	disciplinarian, martinet, moralist,
definition	:	someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms (noun.person)

2. 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)

hyponym	:	autocrat, despot, tyrant,
definition	:	a cruel and oppressive dictator (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	duvalier, francois duvalier, papa doc,
definition	:	oppressive Haitian dictator (1907-1971) (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	:	el caudillo, francisco franco, franco, general franco,
definition	:	Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	adolf hitler, der fuhrer, hitler,
definition	:	German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	benito mussolini, il duce, mussolini,
definition	:	Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) (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)

3. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine (noun.person)

hypernym	:	speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer,
definition	:	someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) (noun.person)

4. a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner (noun.person)

derivation	:	dictate, order, prescribe,
definition	:	issue commands or orders for (verb.communication)

5. a ruler who is unconstrained by law (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	:	authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical,
definition	:	characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty (adj.all)

derivation	:	dictatorial,
definition	:	of or characteristic of a dictator (adj.pert)

6. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine (noun.person)

derivation	:	dictate,
definition	:	say out loud for the purpose of recording (verb.cognition)

7. a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner (noun.person)

derivation	:	dictate, order, prescribe,
definition	:	issue commands or orders for (verb.communication)

8. a ruler who is unconstrained by law (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	:	authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical,
definition	:	characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty (adj.all)

derivation	:	dictatorial,
definition	:	of or characteristic of a dictator (adj.pert)

9. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine (noun.person)

derivation	:	dictate,
definition	:	say out loud for the purpose of recording (verb.cognition)