Definition of Dictator

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tyrant, despot, autocrat

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(n.)
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

(n.)
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

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\dic*ta"tor\ (?), n. [l.]
1. one who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
2. one invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language.

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The Devil's Dictionary

Dictator, (n.)

The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911 (About)

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WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
(hypernym) speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
(derivation) dictate
2. a ruler who is unconstrained by law
(synonym) potentate
(hypernym) ruler, swayer
(hyponym) shogun
(derivation) dictate
3. a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
(synonym) authoritarian
(hypernym) oppressor
(hyponym) Big Brother
(derivation) order, prescribe, dictate

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For the ancient Roman title, see Roman dictator.

A dictator is a ruler (e.g. absolutist or autocratic) who assumes sole and absolute power (sometimes, but not always, with military control or bribes) but not officially sanctioned by heritage, as in an absolute monarch. 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 (see Roman dictator and justitium).