Look up: tyrant

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   tyrant
   [n] - a dictator or dictatorial person
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   tyrant
   Name given to a number of men who seized power in their own ancient Greek cities, the first wave of tyrants occurring in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. They opposed the older hereditary aristocratic...
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   tyrant
   1. An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty. ... Free governments [in Greece] having superseded the old hereditary sovereignties (basilei^ai), all who obtained absolute power in a state were called tyrannoi, tyrants, or rather despots; for the term rather regards the irregular way in which the powe ...
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   tyrant
   autocrat noun a cruel and oppressive dictator
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   Tyrant
   In modern usage a `tyrant` is a single ruler holding vast, if not absolute power through a state or in an organization. The term carries connotations of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his/her own interests or the interests of a small oligarchy over the best interests of the general population which they govern or control. This mode of rule is referred to as `tyranny`. Many individual rulers or government officials are accused of tyranny, with...
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   Tyrant
   • (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law ...
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   tyrant
   a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power. In the 10th and 9th ... [4 related articles]
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   tyrant
   tyrant 1. Someone who rules oppressively or cruelly; a despot. 2. Anyone who exercises absolute power without legal warrant, whether ruling well or in a bad way; which is the original meaning in ancient Greece. 3. Etymology: 'absolute ruler', from Old French tyrant (12c.), from Latin tyrannus, 'lord, master, tyrant'; from Greek tyrannos, 'lord, master, ...
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   tyrant
   tyrant, in ancient history, ruler who gained power by usurping the legal authority. The word is perhaps of Lydian origin and carried with it no connotation of moral censure. With the growth of the constitutional, democratic form of government, especially at Athens, in the 5th cent. B.C. the word too...
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