Usually means: Ruler with absolute, oppressive power.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. despot: Merriam-Webster
  2. despot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Despot, despot: Wordnik
  7. despot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. despot: Wiktionary
  9. despot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. despot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. despot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Despot, despot: Dictionary.com
  13. despot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. despot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Despot (court title), Despot (rapper), Despot (title), Despot (vehicle), Despot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Despot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. despot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. despot: Rhymezone
  19. Despot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. despot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. despot: FreeDictionary.org
  22. despot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Despot: The Word Detective
  24. despot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. despot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despot: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. DESPOT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Despot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
noun:  (historical) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

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