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Grammar : Noun
Spell : dik-tey-ter, dik-tey-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪk teɪ tər, dɪkˈteɪ tər

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Origin :
  • late 14c., from Latin dictator, agent noun from dictare (see dictate (v.)). Transferred sense of "one who has absolute power or authority" in any sphere is from c.1600. In Latin use, a dictator was a judge in the Roman republic temporarily invested with absolute power.
  • noun absolute ruler
Example sentences :
  • Most of you are of no higher motivation than are the two dictators and your gangster Clyden.
  • Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Toombs and Stephens never lost their lead as dictators in Georgia politics.
  • Extract from : « Robert Toombs » by Pleasant A. Stovall
  • Its popes, for two hundred years, were the dictators of Europe.
  • Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine
  • Republics in a crisis have always had recourse to dictators.
  • Extract from : « Pictures of Southern Life » by William Howard Russell
  • The dictators professions of liberalism were branded as hypocrisy.
  • Extract from : « The White Terror and The Red » by Abraham Cahan
  • But Kerensky was not of the stuff of which dictators are made.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) » by Various
  • They were dictators with a large D, and nobody could do a thing about it.
  • Extract from : « Fore! » by Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • There were thus two dictators and no cordiality between them.
  • Extract from : « The United States and Latin America » by John Holladay Latan
  • Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators.
  • Extract from : « The Southerner » by Thomas Dixon
  • From the ploughRose her dictators; fought, o'ercame return'd.
  • Extract from : « Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome » by Oliver Goldsmith

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