English-Lithuanian translations for tyrant

• tironas
  Kubą valdo komunistinis tironas, kuris visus savo oponentus sodina į kalėjimą. Cuba is ruled by a communist tyrant who puts all his opponents in prison.
  Pone pirmininke, manau, kad savo kalboje labai aiškiai pasakiau, kad nenoriu, kad kaimynines šalis valdytų pasaulietiškasis tironas ar islamistiškasis teokratas. 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