'Dictator' definitions:
Definition of 'dictator'
(from WordNet)
noun
A speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
noun
A ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: dictator, potentate]
noun
A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: authoritarian, dictator]
Definition of 'Dictator'
From: GCIDE
- Dictator \Dic*ta"tor\, n. [L.]
- 1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. [1913 Webster]
- Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dictator'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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