Antonyms for oligarch


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ol-i-gahrk
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒl ɪˌgɑrk


Definition of oligarch

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Middle French olygarche, oligarque, from Greek oligarkhes, related to oligarkhia (see oligarchy).
  • As in ruler : noun historically, person who ruled an area
  • As in strongman : noun dictator
  • As in dictator : noun absolute ruler
Example sentences :
  • After this manner the democrat was generated out of the oligarch?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • I assume, I said, that the tyrant is in the third place from the oligarch; the democrat was in the middle?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • And the oligarch is third from the royal; since we count as one royal and aristocratical?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Where every man, from nobleman to labourer, should be an oligarch by faith, and a gentleman by practice.
  • Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
  • He was an oligarch, but he wanted the oligarchy round him to be true and honest!
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cicero » by Anthony Trollope
  • The oligarch can be unemployable, because he will not be employed.
  • Extract from : « Eugenics and Other Evils » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Perhaps that French oligarch was a humanitarian; most oligarchs are.
  • Extract from : « All Things Considered » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Not everybody can see his country and the universe through the eyes of an oligarch of high finance.
  • Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 » by Various
  • The voice of an oligarch rang out from the room he disappeared into, quite deliciously, and filled the empty house.
  • Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan
  • What Dickens and other romancers do probably omit from the picture of the eighteenth-century oligarch is probably his liberality.
  • Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton

Synonyms for oligarch

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