tyrant
tahy ruhnt
- n a cruel and oppressive dictator
- n in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
- n any person who exercises power in a cruel way
his father was a tyrant
- And from the ranges of the sky he shall destroy this tyrant.
- Here was a man that the Justice Department was after for shaking down a lobbyist, a man who denounced Fidel Castro as a "tyrant" while receiving contributions from a lobbyist for .
- Hardly had PTI'S report on Guatemala's tyranny appeared last week than a popular movement to overthrow Guatemala's tyrant began.