tyrant

Etymology
From, , , , from , from the addition of a terminal -t to (cp. 🇨🇬) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from , from , of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
 * 2)  Any monarch or governor.
 * 3) * 1737, William Whiston translating, History of the Jewish Wars, I xii §2:
 * Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
 * 1) A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
 * 2) * 1587, Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, A woorke concerning the trewnesse of the christian religion, translating Philippe De Mornay, XII 196:
 * Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
 * 1)  Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
 * 2) * 1817, Mary Mitford in Alfred L'Estrange, The life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870), II i 2
 * a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
 * 1)  A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
 * 2) * 1528, Thomas Paynell translating Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano, Regimen Sanitatis Salerni:
 * A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
 * 1) The, members of the family , which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
 * 2) * c. 1841, Swainson, Penny Cyclopaedia, XXI 415 2:
 * The lesser tyrants are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
 * a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
 * 1)  A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
 * 2) * 1528, Thomas Paynell translating Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano, Regimen Sanitatis Salerni:
 * A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
 * 1) The, members of the family , which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
 * 2) * c. 1841, Swainson, Penny Cyclopaedia, XXI 415 2:
 * The lesser tyrants are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
 * 1) The, members of the family , which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
 * 2) * c. 1841, Swainson, Penny Cyclopaedia, XXI 415 2:
 * The lesser tyrants are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
 * The lesser tyrants are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.

Synonyms

 * , tyrant flycatcher,, ,
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Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tyran
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ტირანი
 * Middle English: tyraunt
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Middle English: tyraunt


 * Arabic: طَاغِيَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Avestan: 𐬯𐬁𐬯𐬙𐬀
 * Basque: tirano
 * Breton: tirant
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 暴君, 暴主
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, 暴主
 * Cornish: turant, turantes
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tyran
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Middle French: tyran
 * Old French: tirant
 * Georgian: ტირანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τῠ́ρᾰννος
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: ansmachtaí, aintiarna, anlaith, tíoránach
 * Italian:, tiranna
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: tyrannus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ти́ран
 * Manx: çhenjagh, tranlaasagh, treanagh, treanyder
 * Middle English: tyraunt
 * Norman: tyran
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tyrann
 * Nynorsk: tyrann
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, tirana
 * Romanian:, tirană
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: aintighearna
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: (暴主)
 * Volapük:,  hitirenan,  jitirenan


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:,  virtirano,  tiraniĉo,  tiranino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტირანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:,  tiranulo,  tiranino
 * Irish: ansmachtaí
 * Italian:
 * Latin: tyrannus
 * Middle English: tyraunt
 * Norman: tyran
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Volapük:,  hitirenan,  jitirenan


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 * Finnish:
 * Middle English: tyraunt
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


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 * Chinese:
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 * Danish:
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 * Esperanto:,  ,  ,
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 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
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 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ,
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 * Ukrainian:
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 * Volapük:,  ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
 * 2) * 1775, Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution (1876), 124:
 * ...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
 * 1) * 1775, Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution (1876), 124:
 * ...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.

Verb

 * 1)  To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
 * 2)  To tyrannize.
 * 1)  To tyrannize.