dictatour
dictatour is the obsolete form of dictator.
Meaning of dictator
Noun
dictator (plural dictators)
- 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
- 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.
- A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
Forms of dictatour
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Questions about dictatour
- What is dictatour the obsolete form of?
- Dictatour is the obsolete form of dictator.
Words near dictatour in the dictionary
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