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autocrats

autocrats is the plural of autocrat.

Meaning of autocrat

Noun

autocrat (plural autocrats)

  1. An absolute ruler with infinite power.
    • Your salary is high; you are to have apartments in the house; and to be the autocrat of the library, where, I shrewdly suspect, your reign will be undisturbed.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 131
  2. A title borne by some such monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia.
  3. Until the 20th century, a favorable description of a ruler who was connected with the concept of lack of conflicts of interest and an indication of grandeur and power.

Questions about autocrats

What is autocrats the plural of?
Autocrats is the plural of autocrat.

Words near autocrats in the dictionary

  1. autocrators
  2. autocratress
  3. autocratrices
  4. autocratrix
  5. autocratrixes
  6. autocrats
  7. autocratship
  8. autocreation
  9. autocremation
  10. autocremations
  11. autocrime

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