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Definition of Dictator

1. Noun. A speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine.

2. Noun. A ruler who is unconstrained by law.

3. Noun. A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner. "My boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

Definition of Dictator

1. n. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

Definition of Dictator

1. Noun. Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war ¹

2. Noun. A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government ¹

3. Noun. A tyrannical boss, or authority figure ¹

4. Noun. A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk) ¹

5. Noun. A ruler or Führer, the highest level of authority. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dictator

1. one that dictates [n -S] - See also: dictates

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dictator

dictamens dictamnus dictamnuses dictaphone dictaphones dictate dictated dictated but not read dictates dictating

dictation dictation machine dictation machines dictational dictations dictator (current term) dictatorial dictatorially dictatorialness dictatorian

dictatorlike dictators dictatorship dictatorship of the majority dictatorship of the proletariat dictatorships dictatory dictatour dictatours dictatress

Literary usage of Dictator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"Sulla dictator with Full Powers.—On the motion of L. Valerius Flaccus, the chief of the senate, Sulla was appointed dictator with full' powers to regulate ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"dictator, The. by Justin McCarthy. When Justin McCarthy published 'The ... 'The dictator,' a story of contemporary life in England, gives scope to its ..."

3. Roman Antiquities ...: Designed to Illustrate the Latin Classics, by by Alexander Adam (1839)
"Why wa« the dictator so called ? What other names did he bear? ... To what limits wa* the numina- tion of a dictator confined ? 043. ..."

4. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"As the dictator was a lesser king, the magister equitum was a greater lieutenant ; but, in spite of the theoretical independence of his position, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"dictator, the highest extraordinary magistrate of the ancient Roman republic. ... It lay with the senate to decide when the services of a dictator were ..."

6. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1833)
"THE dictator was so called, either because he was named by the consul, (quod a consule ... It is uncertain who was first created dictator, or in what year. ..."

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