Despots

noun

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounA ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

2.nounA title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

Synonyms

autocrat tyrant tsars dictators tyrants autocrats tyrannies regimes autocracies rulers despotism elites

Rhymes With

respites

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