English > ruler: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who rules or commands. |
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| Synonym | swayer |
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| Instances | Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur, Timur Lenk | Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) |
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| Narrower | Bourbon | A member of the European royal family that ruled France |
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| Hanoverian | Any of the British rulers who were members of the House of Hanover |
| Inca | A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family) |
| Mogul, Moghul | A member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857 |
| Pharaoh, Pharaoh of Egypt | The title of the ancient Egyptian kings |
| Stuart | A member of the royal family that ruled Scotland and England |
| Tudor | A member of the dynasty that ruled England |
| basileus | A ruler of the eastern Roman Empire |
| caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah | The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth |
| dictator, potentate | A ruler who is unconstrained by law |
| dynast | A hereditary ruler |
| emir, amir, emeer, ameer | An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) |
| ethnarch | The ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority |
| hakim | A Muslim ruler or governor or judge |
| khan | A title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries |
| oligarch | One of the rulers in an oligarchy |
| overlord, master, lord | A person who has general authority over others |
| puppet ruler, puppet leader | A leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government |
| regent | someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch |
| sheik, tribal sheik, sheikh, tribal sheikh, Arab chief | The leader of an Arab village or family |
| sovereign, crowned head, monarch | A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right |
| sultan, grand Turk | The ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) |
| tyrant | In ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | gobernador, gobernante, soberano |
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| Catalan | governador, governant |
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| Nouns | rulership | the position of ruler |
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| Verbs | rule | decide with authority |
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| rule | exercise authority over |
