What does dictator mean?
Definitions for dictator
ˈdɪk teɪ tər, dɪkˈteɪ tərdic·ta·tor
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Princeton's WordNet
dictatornoun
a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
dictator, potentatenoun
a ruler who is unconstrained by law
authoritarian, dictatornoun
a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
"my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
Wiktionary
dictatornoun
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
dictatornoun
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government
dictatornoun
A tyrannical boss, or authority figure
dictatornoun
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk)
dictatornoun
A ruler or Führer, the highest level of authority.
Etymology: From dictator, from dicto, from dico.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
DICTATORnoun
Etymology: Latin.
Kind dictators made, when they came home,
Their vanquish’d foes free citizens of Rome. Edmund Waller.Julius with honour tam’d Rome’s foreign foes;
But patriots fell, ere the dictator rose. Matthew Prior.Unanimous they all commit the care,
And management of this main enterprize,
To him their great dictator. John Milton, Paradise Regain’d, b. i.Nor is it a small power it gives one man over another, to have the authority to be the dictator of principles, and teacher of unquestionable truths. John Locke.
That riches, honours, and outward splendour, should set up persons for dictators to all the rest of mankind, is a most shameful invasion of the right of our understanding. Isaac Watts.
Wikipedia
Dictator
A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium).Like the term tyrant, and to a lesser degree autocrat, dictator came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive rule. In modern usage the term dictator is generally used to describe a leader who holds or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power. Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the following: suspension of elections and civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents; not abiding by the procedures of the rule of law, and the existence of a cult of personality centered on the leader. Dictatorships are often one-party or dominant-party states.A wide variety of leaders coming to power in different kinds of regimes, such as one-party states, dominant-party states, and civilian governments under a personal rule, have been described as dictators.
ChatGPT
dictator
A dictator is a political leader who holds absolute power or unrestricted authority, typically obtained by force and exercised without any constraints or opposition. Dictators often maintain power through a variety of methods such as suppression of political dissent, censorship, propaganda, and often use an authoritarian form of government. Dictatorship can also refer to any situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else.
Webster Dictionary
Dictatornoun
one who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others
Dictatornoun
one invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power
Etymology: [L.]
Wikidata
Dictator
A dictator is a ruler who does not rule through democratic means. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship. The word originated as the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency. Like the term "tyrant", and to a lesser degree "autocrat", "dictator" came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular use. In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures; these include single-party state, and cult of personality. The term "dictator" is comparable to – but not synonymous with – the ancient concept of a tyrant; initially "tyrant", like "dictator", did not carry negative connotations. A wide variety of leaders coming to power in a number of different kinds of regimes, such as military juntas, single-party states and civilian governments under personal rule, have been described as dictators. They may hold left or right-wing views, or can even be apolitical.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Dictator
a magistrate invested with absolute authority in ancient republican Rome in times of exigence and danger; the constitution obliged him to resign his authority at the end of six months, till which time he was free without challenge afterwards to do whatever the interest of the commonwealth seemed to him to require; the most famous dictators were Cincinnatus, Camillus, Sulla, and Cæsar, who was the last to be invested with this power; the office ceased with the fall of the republic, or rather, was merged in the perpetual dictatorship of the emperor.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
dictator
In the earliest times, was the name of the highest magistrate of the Latin Confederation, and in some of the Latin towns the title was continued long after these towns were subjected to the dominion of Rome. In the Roman republic the dictator was an extraordinary magistrate, irresponsible and endowed with absolute authority. The dictatorship could not lawfully be held longer than six months. Dictators were only appointed so long as the Romans had to carry on wars in and out of Italy, or when any vigorous measure had to be acted upon. The limits of his power were as follows: he could not touch the treasury; he could not leave Italy; and he could not ride through Rome on horseback without previously obtaining the permission of the people.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dictator in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dictator in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of dictator in a Sentence
Fred and Cindy Warmbier, Fred Warmbier, said in a statement provided to CNN. After a second summit with Kim in Vietnam, President Trump said Thursday he does not hold the North Korean dictator responsible for Warmbier's death. President Trump Trumps shocking, shameful about-face on Otto Warmbier.
We had a murderous dictator, Gadhafi, who had American blood on his hands, as I'm sure you remember, threatening to massacre large numbers of the Libyan people, we had our closest allies in Europe burning up the phone lines begging us to help them try to prevent what they saw as a mass genocide, in their words. And we had the Arabs standing by our side saying, 'We want you to help us deal with Gadhafi.'.
Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he does not even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)
Let's be clear: There's no doubt that Bashar Assad is a brutal dictator who has slaughtered his own people and is complicit in the use of chemical weapons.
British Prime Minister David Cameron:
If this is part of international action against ISIL (IS) and that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good, if, on the other hand, this is action against the Free Syrian Army and in defence of Assad the dictator, then obviously that is a retrograde step, but let's see exactly what's happened.
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- دكتاتورArabic
- дыктатарBelarusian
- диктаторBulgarian
- diktátorCzech
- DiktatorGerman
- δικτάτοραςGreek
- diktatoroEsperanto
- dictadora, dictadorSpanish
- diktaatorEstonian
- دیکتاتورPersian
- diktaattoriFinnish
- dictateurFrench
- דיקטאטורHebrew
- diktátorHungarian
- բռնապետArmenian
- einræðiherraIcelandic
- dittatoreItalian
- 独裁者Japanese
- 獨裁者, 독재자Korean
- dictatorLatin
- диктаторMacedonian
- dictatorDutch
- dyktatorPolish
- ditador, ditadoraPortuguese
- dictator, dictatoriRomanian
- диктаторRussian
- diktator, диктаторSerbo-Croatian
- diktator, envåldshärskareSwedish
- diktetaSwahili
- diktadorTagalog
- диктаторUkrainian
- kẻ độc tàiVietnamese
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