Definitions for autocrat

autocrat au·to·crat

Spelling: [aw-tuh-krat]
IPA: /ˈɔ təˌkræt/

Autocrat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in autocrat (aacorttu).

Definitions for autocrat

noun

  1. an absolute ruler, especially a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.
  2. a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority.
  3. a person who behaves in an authoritarian manner; a domineering person.

Origin of autocrat

1795-1805; Greek autokratḗs self-ruling, ruling alone, equivalent to auto- auto-1 + krat- (stem of krátos power) + -ēs adj. suffix

Examples for autocrat

She has always had the germ of the ruler and autocrat in her soul.

It appeased and disarmed this anarchist who was also an autocrat.

But when this autocrat had made up his mind, objections were brushed aside.

The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.

Nothing humbles an autocrat quite like the need to grub for votes.

These reforms were mostly designed to reassure Sunnis and Kurds that Maliki would not become an autocrat.

Alexander, as autocrat of all the Russias, did not suffer any authority but his own.

He found it extremely difficult, autocrat as he was, to put it into words.

Continued rule for half a generation must turn a man into an autocrat.

The implicit obedience this autocrat commanded set them in a whirl.

Word Value for autocrat
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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