Definitions for tyrant

Overview of noun tyrant

The noun tyrant has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) tyrant, autocrat, despot

(a cruel and oppressive dictator)

2. tyrant

(in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it)

3. tyrant

(any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant")