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Noun tyrant has 3 senses
- tyrant, autocrat, despot - a cruel and oppressive dictator
--1 is a kind of dictator, potentate
--1 has particulars: czar
- tyrant - in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
--2 is a kind of ruler, swayer
--2 has particulars: Dionysius, Dionysius the Elder
- tyrant - any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
--3 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
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