Dictator - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a ruler who is unconstrained by law (syn: potentate)
- a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner (syn: authoritarian)
Extra examples
The country was ruled by a military dictator.
...the dictator had a fierce stranglehold on the country, keeping its people in poverty and ignorance...
The country has been rulled by a military dictator for six years.
The members of patrliament accused the party leader of behaving like a dictator.
The country is ruled by an absolute dictator.
...a cyclopean granite statue that the dictator himself had commissioned...
...the propaganda film attempts to deodorize the dictator's history of human rights abuses...
...a military junta deposed the dictator after he had bankrupted the country...
...members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well...
The dictator enriched himself but impoverished his people.
...an inhumane dictator who tortured and murdered thousands of his own people...
...yet another tale of a power-mad dictator with a Machiavellian plan to take over the world...
...the cowardly obedience with which the dictator's henchmen followed his every command...
The country has long been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.
The rebels ousted the dictator from power.
Word forms
singular: dictator
plural: dictators
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