English-Latvian translations for tyrant

• tirāns
  Kubu vada komunistiski nosakņots tirāns, kas visus savus oponentus iesloga cietumā. Cuba is ruled by a communist tyrant who puts all his opponents in prison.
  Es nevaru, kaut gan diemžēl laiks spiež kā tirāns, nepateikt paldies Weber kungam. I cannot, although time is unfortunately a tyrant, omit to thank Mr Weber.
  Priekšsēdētāja kungs, manuprāt, es savā runā ļoti skaidri pateicu, ka nevēlos, lai valstīs mūsu kaimiņos valdītu sekulārs tirāns vai islāmistu teokrāts. Mr President, I think I made it very clear in my speech that I do not want a secular tyrant or an Islamist theocrat running any of the countries in our neighbourhood.

Definition of tyrant

• A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession
• Any monarch or governor
• A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly
• Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly
• A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly
• The , members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests
• Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant
• To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical
• To tyrannize

Synonyms

• tyrant flycatcher

Related words

• tyrantess
• chat-tyrant
• tyrant flycatcher
• tyrant flycatchers
• Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant
• Hazel-fronted Pygmy Tyrant
• Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant
• Tawny-crowned Pygmy Tyrant
• Rufous-sided Pygmy Tyrant