Usually means: Ruler with great power, authority.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. potentate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. potentate: Merriam-Webster
  3. potentate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. potentate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. potentate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. potentate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Potentate, potentate: Wordnik
  8. potentate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. potentate: Wiktionary
  10. potentate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. potentate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. potentate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Potentate, potentate: Dictionary.com
  14. potentate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Potentate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Potentate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. potentate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. potentate: Rhymezone
  19. Potentate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. potentate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. potentate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. potentate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. potentate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Potentate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potentate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. POTENTATE: Masonic Dictionary
  2. potentate: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
noun:  A powerful polity or institution.
noun:  (derogatory) A self-important person.
noun:  (humorous) Someone acting in an important role.
adjective:  (obsolete) Regnant, powerful, dominant.

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