monarch | | |
n. (person) | 1. crowned head, monarch, sovereign | a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right. |
| ~ capetian | a member of the Capetian dynasty. |
| ~ carlovingian, carolingian | a member of the Carolingian dynasty. |
| ~ czar, tsar, tzar | a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917). |
| ~ emperor | the male ruler of an empire. |
| ~ chief of state, head of state | the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government. |
| ~ king, male monarch, rex | a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom. |
| ~ merovingian | a member of the Merovingian dynasty. |
| ~ ruler, swayer | a person who rules or commands.; "swayer of the universe" |
| ~ shah, shah of iran | title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran. |
n. (animal) | 2. danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch, monarch butterfly | large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed. |
| ~ danaid, danaid butterfly | large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste. |
| ~ danaus, genus danaus | type genus of the Danaidae: monarch butterflies. |
potentate | | |
n. (person) | 1. dictator, potentate | a ruler who is unconstrained by law. |
| ~ ruler, swayer | a person who rules or commands.; "swayer of the universe" |
| ~ shogun | a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68. |
| ~ strongman | a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence.; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman" |
| ~ autocrat, despot, tyrant | a cruel and oppressive dictator. |
| ~ francois duvalier, papa doc, duvalier | oppressive Haitian dictator (1907-1971). |
| ~ baby doc, duvalier, jean-claude duvalier | son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951). |
| ~ el caudillo, francisco franco, franco, general franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975). |
| ~ adolf hitler, der fuhrer, hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945). |
| ~ benito mussolini, il duce, mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945). |
| ~ tojo, tojo eiki, tojo hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; he was subsequently tried and executed as a war criminal (1884-1948). |
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