DICTATOR: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'dikteytur
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| Matching Terms: | | dictatorial, dictatorially, Dictatorian, dictatorship, Dictatory
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- [n] a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
- [n] a ruler who is unconstrained by law
- [n] a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
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| | Synonyms: | | authoritarian, potentate |
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| | See Also: | | Adolf Hitler, autocrat, Baby Doc, Benito Mussolini, Big Brother, Der Fuhrer, despot, disciplinarian, Duvalier, El Caudillo, Francisco Franco, Franco, Francois Duvalier, Hitler, Husain, Husayn, Hussein, Il Duce, Jean-Claude Duvalier, martinet, moralist, Mussolini, oppressor, Papa Doc, ruler, Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti, Saddam Hussein, shogun, speaker, swayer, talker, Tojo, Tojo Eiki, Tojo Hideki, tyrant, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dic*ta"tor\, n. [L.]
1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims
authoritatively for the direction of others. --Locke.
2. One invested with absolute authority; especially, a
magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and
invested with unlimited power.
Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a
pope, over our language. --Macaulay.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing or dreaming that you are a dictator, suggests that you need to be more flexible and open-minded in our thinking and in your decision making. You are being too controlling. |
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, authoritarian, authoritative, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, overlord, pharaoh, Simon Legree, slave driver, stern, stickler, strong man, tyrant, usurper, warlord |
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