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dictatour

dictatour is the obsolete form of dictator.

Meaning of dictator

Noun

dictator (plural dictators)

  1. An authoritarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
    • The Dominicans had lived for thirty years under the iron-fisted rule of dictator Leonidas Trujillo. During those years, which ended with Trujillo's assassination in 1961, those who opposed Trujillo had three choices: to go into exile, to go underground, or to remain quiet. Most Dominicans had...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “A Time of Testing: Crises in the Caribbean”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188
  2. A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the Senate, typically to conduct a war.
  3. A tyrannical boss or authority figure.

Forms of dictatour

pluraldictatours

Questions about dictatour

What is dictatour the obsolete form of?
Dictatour is the obsolete form of dictator.

Words near dictatour in the dictionary

  1. dictatorships
  2. dictatorships of democracy
  3. dictatorships of the majority
  4. dictatorships of the proletariat
  5. dictatory
  6. dictatour
  7. dictatours
  8. dictatourship
  9. dictatourships
  10. dictatress
  11. dictatresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dictatour (page history and authors); dictator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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