English-Finnish translations for dictator

• diktaattori
  Saddam Hussein on julma diktaattori. Saddam Hussein is a cruel dictator.
  Nyt kaikki hokevat, että presidentti Mubarak oli diktaattori. Today everyone says that Mr Mubarak was a dictator.
  Ongelmana on nimenomaan Irakin diktaattori. It is the Iraqi dictator who is the problem.

Definition of dictator

• A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government
• A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate , typically to conduct a war
• A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk

Examples

• Dictators are always punished eventually

Related words

• dictatorship
• dictatorial
• dictatorialness
• dictatorially
• antidictatorship
• dictatorship of the proletariat
• dictatorship of the majority
• benevolent dictator
• military dictatorship