dynast
- n a hereditary ruler
- Thus the celebrated dynast signaled that he was letting go of a $43 billion company he has headed for 34 years.
- By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is the spoiled dynast, reclaiming the White House as a legacy from the man he regards as a usurper.
- For 25 years the late great political dynast Robert Marion La Follette kept getting himself elected regularly as Governor or Senator.