despot

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
2. noun A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

Similar words

autocrat tyrant tsar satrap tyranny absoluteness strongman absolute monarch caesar potentate

Often followed by

of who and in is to or was as

Word family

despots