Despot Definition

dĕspət
despots
noun
despots
An absolute ruler; king with unlimited powers; autocrat.
Webster's New World
Anyone in charge who acts like a tyrant.
Webster's New World
A title applied to certain classes of rulers, as Byzantine emperors or bishops of the Eastern Church.
Webster's New World
A Byzantine emperor or prince.
American Heritage

A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

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Noun

Singular:
despot
Plural:
despots

Origin of Despot

  • From Old French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”), from the Proto-Indo-European phrase *déms pótis (“master of the house”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French despote from Medieval Latin despota from Greek despotēs master dem- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Despot Sentence Examples

  • The archbishop Giovanni Visconti was at this period virtually despot of Milan.

  • It was about 348-345 B.C. that Aristotle spent three years at Assus with Hermeas, an ex-slave who had succeeded his former master Eubulus as despot of Assus and Atarneus.

  • Dionysius was regarded by the ancients as a type of the worst kind of despot - cruel, suspicious and vindictive.

  • The spectacle of an Eastern despot apparently advancing on the lines of European progress was in itself as astonishing as new.

  • Charlotte always arranges everything in our house and rules us like a despot.

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Words Starting With

DDEDES

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TOTPOT

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