monocrat

noun

Definition of monocratnext
as in autocrat

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  1. autocrat
  2. dictator
  3. tyrant
  4. pharaoh
  5. strongman
  6. despot
  7. totalitarian
  8. overlord
Noun
  • This put a bright spotlight on the hypocrisy and hubris that have often characterized the aspects of American foreign policy that exist outside the rules, which fuel the narratives of autocrats and populists alike.
    Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Even before his Inauguration, Trump’s victory will shake alliances and embolden autocrats around the world.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of autocrat
Noun
  • Genocidal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted from power in a revolution that led to the Christmas Day trial and execution by firing squad of him and his wife, Elena.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Amid civil unrest and human rights violations, the dictator also sent his wife private sketches of valentine hearts and links to romantic country music songs.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of dictator
Noun
  • This frees up Hope to be a tyrant to the wedding planning committee.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Movements, parties, and tyrants thrive on xenophobia—the word might be specifically Hellenic, but the sentiment is universal.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • Disease, pestilence and death: Has unsealing King Tut's tomb unleashed an ancient curse? Fox Nation's 'Tales of Terror: The Curse of King Tut' unravels the media frenzy that came on the heels of uncovering the Egyptian pharaoh's ancient tomb and the devastation that followed.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Participants in Passover Seders imagine that they themselves were freed from the pharaoh’s yoke.
    Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of pharaoh
Noun
  • Ours is the world of strongmen, where decisions increasingly turn on the whims of a vanishing few.
    Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Following 53 years of brutal Assad family rule and 13 years of bloody civil war, the Syrian strongman abruptly fled for asylum in Moscow as rebels finalized their encircling of Damascus.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of strongman
Noun
  • And a wary world was watching to see whether Syria was replacing one despot with another.
    Richard Engel, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Wicked the musical is based on a 1995 novel of the same title by Gregory Maguire, an anti-fascist treatise in which the Wizard becomes a Hitler-like despot.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of despot
Noun
  • Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Definition of totalitarian
Noun
  • The new-look Big 12 is a football island of misfit toys that’s begging for an overlord.
    Sean Keeler, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Haines eventually invoked a scene in actor Colman Domingo's TV thriller The Madness that sees the actor's character weigh similar action against a powerful overlord.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of overlord
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