monocrat

noun

Definition of monocratnext
as in autocrat

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monocrat
  1. autocrat
  2. dictator
  3. tyrant
  4. pharaoh
  5. strongman
  6. despot
  7. totalitarian
  8. overlord
Noun
  • Further, America’s adversaries—China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—are collaborating more closely than ever in an axis of autocrats which enable them to combine strengths in their collective goal of weakening the United States.
    Michael Brown, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But its core themes—the corrupting allure of control, the dangers of putting the future in the hands of greedy autocrats—align closely with those of the original Dune novels.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of autocrat
Noun
  • Biden spoke Sunday with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about changes resulting from a ceasefire deal in Lebanon and the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the White House said.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Biden leaves office in a period of global turbulence, with the Israel-Hamas war ongoing; Syria under rebel leadership after its dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was suddenly ousted; and a civil war raging in Sudan.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of dictator
Noun
  • This frees up Hope to be a tyrant to the wedding planning committee.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Movements, parties, and tyrants thrive on xenophobia—the word might be specifically Hellenic, but the sentiment is universal.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • The pharaoh had fallen ill, and documents that survived to the present day said a physician cured the ailment of his nostrils.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Disease, pestilence and death: Has unsealing King Tut's tomb unleashed an ancient curse? Fox Nation's 'Tales of Terror: The Curse of King Tut' unravels the media frenzy that came on the heels of uncovering the Egyptian pharaoh's ancient tomb and the devastation that followed.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of pharaoh
Noun
  • The fourth-line strongman staggered off the ice in garbage time after eating an Emil Lilleberg cross-check with 2.5 seconds remaining in regulation.
    Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Trump and Pence shake hands at Carter's funeral service amid frosty relationship Michelle Obama absent from Carter funeral A politics pit stop Trump loves populists and strongmen.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of strongman
Noun
  • Assad's fall is a moment of accountability in a world where despots often escape justice.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • This sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic substitutes the brother emperors Caracalla and Geta for the original’s Commodus, modeling them not only on him, but on a host of Rome’s other reputedly bloodthirsty despots like Caligula, Nero, and Domitian.
    Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of despot
Noun
  • Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Definition of totalitarian
Noun
  • After Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their show and welcomed our new insect overlords?
    Keith Olbermann, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In the nineteenth century, as the cost of its independence, Haiti had to pay France—its erstwhile colonial overlord—reparations.
    Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of overlord
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