autocrat
autocrat
nounDefinition of AUTOCRAT
one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority <European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God>
Related Words coruler; Caesar, czar (also tsar or tzar), emir (or amir also ameer), emperor, empress, kaiser, khan, khedive, king, lord, mikado, mogul, prince, queen, satrap, shah, sultan, suzerain; authoritarian, Big Brother, despot, dictator, führer (or fuehrer), monocrat, overlord, paramount, tyrant
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