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English

Etymology

From autocrate, itself from αυτωκρατησ (autokrates) "ruling by oneself," from auto- "self" (combinatory form of autos) + kratia "rule" (from kratos "strength, power")

Noun

An absolute ruler with infinite power
A title born by some such such Monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia

Synonyms

Translations

Albanian: {{t+|sq|autokrat|m|xs=Albanian}}
Croatian: {{t-|hr|autokrat|m}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|samovládce|m}}
Dutch: autokraat
French: {{t+|fr|autocrate|m}}

German: {{t+|de|Autokrat|m}}
Ido: autokrato
Russian: {{t+|ru|автократ|m|sc=Cyrl}}
Serbian: samodržac, samovladar
Spanish: autócrata

Anagrams

actuator

References

fr:autocrat io:autocrat te:autocrat vi:autocrat

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Autocrat \Au"to*crat\, n. [Gr. ?; ? self + ? strength, ? strong:
cf. F. autocrate. See Hard, a.]
1. An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises
the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not
subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a
title of the Czar).
[1913 Webster]

2. One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or
relation; a despot.
[1913 Webster]

The autocrat of the breakfast table. --Holmes.
[1913 Webster] Autocratic

WordNet autocrat
n : a cruel and oppressive dictator [syn: tyrant, despot]

Moby Dictionary
Simon Legree , absolute monarch , absolute ruler , all-powerful ruler ,
arrogator , autarch , caesar , commissar , czar , despot , dictator ,
disciplinarian , driver , duce , hard master , martinet , oligarch ,
oppressor , pharaoh , slave driver , stickler , tyrant , usurper ,
warlord