Dictator is an English word with synonyms like speaker or authoritarian. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dictator in a sentence
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Dictator meaning
- A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
- 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.
Synonyms of Dictator
Using Dictator
- The main meaning on this page is: A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government. | 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.
- Useful related words include: speaker, authoritarian, swayer, ruler.
- In the example corpus, dictator often appears in combinations such as: the dictator, dictator and, be dictator.
Context around Dictator
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dictator
- In this selection, "dictator" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, socialist, murderous, appointed, dodge, except and hugo stand out and add context to how "dictator" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dictator bent on and a dictator would have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dictator" sits close to words such as alhaji, breakout and carr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dictator
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And it is of course wrong to smear a president as a veritable Hitlerian dictator. (15 words)
A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberties. (19 words)
Demonstrators are chanting phrases such as "Down with the dictator", "Death to the dictator", and "Give us our votes back". (20 words)
Aras Abid had every reason to want Saddam Hussein out of power after he was the sole survivor from his 12-member family from a gas attack ordered by the dictator on his Kurdish community in 1988. (37 words)
Cuban socialist dictator and Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez didn’t say they were socialists when seeking the people’s support for power, Zuniga told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program in a recent interview. (34 words)
When a Dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the Master of the Horse, whose office ceased to exist once the Dictator left office. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
But Trump's cheeky “dictator” dodge, implying that he wouldn't be a dictator "except for on day one" has drawn renewed scrutiny from reporters and opposing candidates alike.
Cuban socialist dictator and Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez didn’t say they were socialists when seeking the people’s support for power, Zuniga told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program in a recent interview.
Murderous dictator goes after other murderous dictator, but we only care about the 2nd one because the guy killed lived in America and worked for the WP.
A dictator would have complete authority over civil and military matters within the Roman imperium, and was not legally responsible for his actions as a dictator and therefore was unquestionable.
At the end of the term, the Dictator's power returned to normal Consular rule whereupon a dictator provided accountability, though not all dictators accepted a return to power sharing.
Demonstrators are chanting phrases such as "Down with the dictator", "Death to the dictator", and "Give us our votes back".
In 48 BC, he was reappointed dictator, only this time for an indefinite period, and in 46 BC, he was appointed dictator for 10 years.
Lictors attending the dictator kept the axes in their fasces even inside the Pomerium—a sign that the dictator had the ultimate power in his own hands.
Technically, Caesar was not appointed dictator with a term of 10 years, but he was appointed annual dictator for the next 10 years in advance.
The magister equitum, like the Dictator, had unchallengeable authority in all civil and military affairs, with his decisions only being overturned by the Dictator himself.
The term "dictator" is comparable to but not synonymous with the ancient concept of a tyrant; initially "tyrant", like "dictator", did not carry negative connotations.
When a Dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the Master of the Horse, whose office ceased to exist once the Dictator left office.
A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberties.
Amid the praise for authoritarian leaders outside the U.S., Trump said he himself would serve as a dictator — only on day one of his second term.
And it is of course wrong to smear a president as a veritable Hitlerian dictator.
Aras Abid had every reason to want Saddam Hussein out of power after he was the sole survivor from his 12-member family from a gas attack ordered by the dictator on his Kurdish community in 1988.
A resettlement program is being designed to offer more support to defectors from North Korea, a country run by a dictator and accused of human rights violations.
A successful reserve currency is based on trust, and most market actors won’t trust their wealth to a fickle dictator.
Belarus's dictator Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that he talked Vladimir Putin out of executing Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin for his uprising against the Kremlin.
Best screenplay went to Guillermo Calderon and Pablo Larrain for the script of El Conde, a satirical film about Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Common combinations with dictator
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dictator 25×
- dictator and 14×
- be dictator 11×
- as dictator 8×
- dictator on 8×
- of dictator 7×
- dictator who 7×
- dictator in 7×
- dictator of 6×
- dictator is 5×