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dy·nast  (dnst, -nst)
n.
A ruler, especially a hereditary one.
[Latin dynasts, from Greek dunasts, lord, from dunasthai, to be able; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots.]
dynast
Noun
a hereditary ruler [Greek dunasthai to be powerful]
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Noun1.dynast - a hereditary ruler
ruler, swayer - a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"
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If San Antonio wins, the Spurs go down as serious dynasts, having three titles in seven years - the same number as the Lakers.
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Dynasts are particularly inclined to build impressive civic monuments.
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The poem names also the king's consors Elizabeth of York (1465-1503); the filii born to them as yet, in whom Lancaster and York united to make Tudor; and the powerful matriarch, the king's mother Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), whose role as dynast was much greater than that of Henry's long-deceased father: through her the Lancastrian titulus came to Henry.
The 'Opicius' poems (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. iv) and the ... by Carlson, David R. / Renaissance Quarterly
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