A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
The tyrant birds, 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.