Potentate Synonyms

pōt'n-tāt'

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Synonyms for Potentate

monarch
A sovereign, such as a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority:
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sovereign
A nation that governs territory outside its borders.
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overlord
Anyone with overarching power or authority in a given domain.
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dictator
Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war
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Words Related to Potentate

king
(UK, slang) A king skin.
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master
A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
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ruler
One, such as a monarch or dictator, that rules or governs.
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despot
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autocrat
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satrap
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Potentate Sentence Examples

  • Valdemar was now, after the king of England, the most powerful potentate in the north of Europe.

  • The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.

  • Each petty potentate strove for his own private advantage in the confusion; and at this epoch the chief gains accrued to the papacy.

  • We are weak; Harry, you know's a mighty potentate.

  • Nearly a quarter of a century later Prester John appears upon the scene, in the character of a Christian conqueror and potentate who combined the characters of priest and king, and ruled over vast dominions in the Far East.

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