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▸ noun: (obsolete) Any monarch or governor.
▸ noun: A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
▸ noun: (by extension) Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
▸ noun: (by extension) A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
▸ noun: The tyrant birds, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
▸ adjective: (uncommon) Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To tyrannize.
Similar:
autocrat,
despot,
Peisistratus,
thiasarch,
Tyrtaeus,
theocrat,
Pisistratus,
heptarchist,
eleutherarch,
symposiarch,
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