1. tyrant

noun. ['ˈtaɪrənt'] a cruel and oppressive dictator.

Rhymes with Tyrant

• aspirant

Sentences with tyrant

1. Adjective
Don't be the tyrant boss that nobody can stand.

2. Noun, singular or mass
Once the tyrant is deposed, the people create a new social contract in place of the old one.

Quotes about tyrant

1. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

2. The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
- Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

3. Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
- Winston S. Churchill

2. tyrant

noun. ['ˈtaɪrənt'] any person who exercises power in a cruel way.

3. tyrant

noun. ['ˈtaɪrənt'] in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it.