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dic·ta·tor  (dkttr, dk-t-)
n.
1.
a. An absolute ruler.
b. A tyrant; a despot.
2. An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
3. One who dictates: These initials are those of the dictator of the letter.

dictator [dɪkˈteɪtə]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a.  a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc.
b.  an absolute, esp tyrannical, ruler
2. (Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in ancient Rome) a person appointed during a crisis to exercise supreme authority
3. a person who makes pronouncements, as on conduct, fashion, etc., which are regarded as authoritative
4. a person who behaves in an authoritarian or tyrannical manner
dictatress  [dɪkˈteɪtrɪs], dictatrix [ˈdɪktətrɪks] fem n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dictatordictator - a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
2.dictator - a ruler who is unconstrained by law
ruler, swayer - a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"
shogun - a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
strongman - a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman"
autocrat, despot, tyrant - a cruel and oppressive dictator
3.dictator - a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
Big Brother - an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy
disciplinarian, martinet, moralist - someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
oppressor - a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

dictator
noun absolute ruler, tyrant, despot, Big Brother, oppressor, control freak, autocrat, absolutist, martinet the fall of Haiti's military dictator
Translations
dictator [dɪkˈteɪtəʳ] Ndictador(a) m/f

dictator [dɪkˈteɪtər] ndictateur m

dictator
n
(Pol, fig) → Diktator(in) m(f)
(of letter, passage)Diktierende(r) mf

dictator [dɪkˈteɪtəʳ] ndittatore/trice
dictator [dɪkˈteɪtəʳ] ndittatore/trice

dictator ديكتاتور diktátor diktator Diktator δικτάτορας dictador diktaattori dictateur diktator dittatore 独裁者 독재자 dictator diktator dyktator ditador диктатор diktator ผู้เผด็จการ diktatör nhà độc tài 独裁


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If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea.
All the beauty that has ever been in the world has broken the laws of all previous beauty, and unwillingly dictated laws to the beauty that succeeded it,--laws which that beauty has no less spiritedly broken, to prove in turn dictator to its successor.
Every man the least conversant in Roman story, knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of Dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome.
 
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