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monocrat

noun

Definition of monocratnext
as in autocrat

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  1. autocrat
  2. Big Brother
  3. dictator
  4. tyrant
  5. pharaoh
  6. oppressor
  7. strongman
  8. despot
Noun
  • The National Resistance Forces is made up largely of Yemenis from the north, led by a commander related to the country’s former autocrat, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who died at the hands of the Houthis in 2017.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Born Again followed Fisk who goes from being a gangster to a NYC autocrat mayor.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of autocrat
Noun
  • The final three houseguests who could potentially win Big Brother Season 28 are Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell, and Rick Devens.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • No player frustrated Melody Morris this season on Big Brother more than Drew Campbell.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of Big Brother
Noun
  • Well, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and I often argue, jokingly, about which of us is the bigger dictator.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Ovechkin, who turns 41 on Thursday — the same day the Capitals open training camp — has long been a public supporter of Putin, the de facto dictator whose authoritarian regime has overseen a full-scale war with neighboring Ukraine since 2022.
    — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of dictator
Noun
  • Plato warned that an unhealthy democracy can easily fall prey to a tyrant.
    — Kenneth Michael White, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Some of the rumors, and a few of the reports at the time, paint Khrzhanovsky as a tyrant who went mad with power, like Colonel Kurtz in Heart of Darkness (or maybe Francis Ford Coppola making Apocalypse Now).
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • She’s loved by her family of humans (the Osteens) and other farm animals (including Elsie the cow; goats Honey, Dolly, Roger, Polly and Dodger; and Tom, the king of the turkeys who stalks around his enclosure like a pharaoh).
    — Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In fact, the Book of Exodus is his jam here, focusing on Moses (Christian Bale), his close connection to Egyptian pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) and Moses' effort to lead the Israelites out of Egypt to freedom.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of pharaoh
Noun
  • Can an accurate story of a system of oppression be derived from sources created and preserved by the oppressors?
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • For the left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant.
    — Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of oppressor
Noun
  • Belarus, a completely landlocked country thousands of miles away from America’s farm country that is run by a strongman ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Mugabe, longtime strongman of Zimbabwe, printed money to ensure his party kept control of the country and to finance the nation's deficits.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of strongman
Noun
  • Like in Vegas, where Elwood was babysitting the son of a despot.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Nevermind that by this stage the 48-year-old despot had a seeping abscess on his left leg and could barely walk.
    — Eva Wolchover, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of despot
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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