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单词 dictator
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Definition of dictator in English:

dictator

noun dɪkˈteɪtəˈdɪkˌteɪdər
  • 1A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

    (尤指以武力夺取权力的)独裁者,专政者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
    • Kings and dictators might be very good at imposing order, but as early bankers learned the hard was they can't be trusted to pay back their debts.
    • The company depends on grabbing diamonds from whoever controls them, even if they are tyrants or dictators.
    • Terrorists, extremists, dictators, and leaders with narrow interests have led the human race into wars and violence for centuries in the name of justice, religion, and revenge.
    • The pig leader Napoleon and his rival Snowball symbolize the dictator Stalin and the Communist leader Leon Trotsky.
    • Assassinating dictators and toppling undemocratic regimes doesn't sound so bad, in the end.
    • We opposed him from day one, because it was clear that he was a socialist dictator and a tyrant.
    • Their wealth is being drained via corrupt Governments and dictators and the international community is turning a blind eye
    • First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes.
    • We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents.
    • There are many countries in the world where the unfortunate people living there, are subject to the whims of corrupt dictators who have managed to gain power, usually by force.
    • This war is not about democracy; our history shows that we have put more right-wing dictators in power throughout the world than we have supported democracy.
    • Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
    • Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather.
    • Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.
    • They have allowed terrorists, anarchists, dictators and religious fanatics to flourish within their borders.
    • Why bother, ask many commentators, expending moral indignation on a totalitarian dictator who is universally despised?
    • We have struggled courageously to topple the dictator and establish democracy.
    • Instead of building bridges of friendship to the people of Central Asia, we are instead aligning ourselves with the brutal dictators who oppress them.
    • If the genes of violence are in many of us, why are they less likely to be in democratically elected rulers than in dictators?
    Synonyms
    autocrat, monocrat, absolute ruler
    tyrant, despot, oppressor, absolutist, totalitarian, authoritarian
    informal supremo, Big Brother
    rare autarch
    1. 1.1 A person who behaves in an autocratic way.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Lucky to still be up, I assume they're fishing around for rich dictators as we speak, plus a manager, plus a defence.
      • But golf is also such a threat to autocrats and dictators because it is a game that is built around the rule of law - namely the Rules of Golf.
      • Saturday night the truth will be spoken and it will come from none other than boxing's dictator over the last decade, Roy Jones Jr.
      • The ability of the surgeon to allow himself to become a partner, not a dictator, is critical.
      • They are not representative of the public and are behaving like dictators.
      Synonyms
      autocrat, despot, tyrant, absolutist
    2. 1.2 (in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
      (古罗马)(在紧急情况下任命的有绝对权力的)独裁官
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In 46BC Cleopatra arrives in Rome; Caesar is appointed dictator for 10 years; he revises the calendar
      • Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
      • Finally the republic was torn to pieces by rival power-hungry tribunes or dictators like Pompey, Sulla, and Julius Caesar.
      • The strategy of the dictator Fabius prevented further losses.
      • The Society took its name from the Roman dictator Fabius, nicknamed ‘Cunctator’, or delayer.
      • Caesar was a warlord and a dictator, but if one can look past that, as ridiculous as it sounds, then one would also notice that Caesar did a lot of good for Rome.
      • In the early first century BC the dictator Sulla sought to eliminate his opponents by ‘proscribing’ the names of all those who were declared to be traitors.
      • Sulla used his power as dictator to refashion the Roman state.
      • The realism of the Romans about the relationships between power and consent can be seen in the office of dictator, for dictatorship was a constitutional office in republican Rome.
      • Caesar was declared dictator of Rome by the now submissive Senate.
      • He defeated Pompey's troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from dictat- 'dictated', from the verb dictare (see dictate).

Definition of dictator in US English:

dictator

nounˈdikˌtādərˈdɪkˌteɪdər
  • 1A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

    (尤指以武力夺取权力的)独裁者,专政者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This war is not about democracy; our history shows that we have put more right-wing dictators in power throughout the world than we have supported democracy.
    • First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes.
    • They have allowed terrorists, anarchists, dictators and religious fanatics to flourish within their borders.
    • We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents.
    • We have struggled courageously to topple the dictator and establish democracy.
    • The pig leader Napoleon and his rival Snowball symbolize the dictator Stalin and the Communist leader Leon Trotsky.
    • Why bother, ask many commentators, expending moral indignation on a totalitarian dictator who is universally despised?
    • The company depends on grabbing diamonds from whoever controls them, even if they are tyrants or dictators.
    • Kings and dictators might be very good at imposing order, but as early bankers learned the hard was they can't be trusted to pay back their debts.
    • If the genes of violence are in many of us, why are they less likely to be in democratically elected rulers than in dictators?
    • Instead of building bridges of friendship to the people of Central Asia, we are instead aligning ourselves with the brutal dictators who oppress them.
    • Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.
    • Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather.
    • Assassinating dictators and toppling undemocratic regimes doesn't sound so bad, in the end.
    • Terrorists, extremists, dictators, and leaders with narrow interests have led the human race into wars and violence for centuries in the name of justice, religion, and revenge.
    • Their wealth is being drained via corrupt Governments and dictators and the international community is turning a blind eye
    • We opposed him from day one, because it was clear that he was a socialist dictator and a tyrant.
    • He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
    • There are many countries in the world where the unfortunate people living there, are subject to the whims of corrupt dictators who have managed to gain power, usually by force.
    • Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
    Synonyms
    autocrat, monocrat, absolute ruler
    1. 1.1 A person who behaves in an autocratic way.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But golf is also such a threat to autocrats and dictators because it is a game that is built around the rule of law - namely the Rules of Golf.
      • The ability of the surgeon to allow himself to become a partner, not a dictator, is critical.
      • Lucky to still be up, I assume they're fishing around for rich dictators as we speak, plus a manager, plus a defence.
      • They are not representative of the public and are behaving like dictators.
      • Saturday night the truth will be spoken and it will come from none other than boxing's dictator over the last decade, Roy Jones Jr.
      Synonyms
      autocrat, despot, tyrant, absolutist
    2. 1.2 (in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
      (古罗马)(在紧急情况下任命的有绝对权力的)独裁官
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Caesar was declared dictator of Rome by the now submissive Senate.
      • Caesar was a warlord and a dictator, but if one can look past that, as ridiculous as it sounds, then one would also notice that Caesar did a lot of good for Rome.
      • Sulla used his power as dictator to refashion the Roman state.
      • The strategy of the dictator Fabius prevented further losses.
      • Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
      • He defeated Pompey's troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome.
      • In 46BC Cleopatra arrives in Rome; Caesar is appointed dictator for 10 years; he revises the calendar
      • Finally the republic was torn to pieces by rival power-hungry tribunes or dictators like Pompey, Sulla, and Julius Caesar.
      • The realism of the Romans about the relationships between power and consent can be seen in the office of dictator, for dictatorship was a constitutional office in republican Rome.
      • In the early first century BC the dictator Sulla sought to eliminate his opponents by ‘proscribing’ the names of all those who were declared to be traitors.
      • The Society took its name from the Roman dictator Fabius, nicknamed ‘Cunctator’, or delayer.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from dictat- ‘dictated’, from the verb dictare (see dictate).

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