Potentate

//ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt//

Synonyms for "potentate" (31 found)

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More general

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived from

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has context

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is a

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related to

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Translations

45 translations across 24 languages.

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Armenian

3 entries
  • գերիշխան noun (a powerful leader)
  • միապետ noun (a powerful leader)
  • տիրակալ noun (a powerful leader)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • властелин noun (a powerful leader)

Czech

1 entries
  • potentát noun (a powerful leader)

Danish

1 entries
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

Finnish

2 entries
  • mahtimies noun (a powerful leader)
  • potentaatti noun (a powerful leader)

French

2 entries
  • podestat noun (a powerful leader)
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

German

2 entries
  • Potentat noun (a powerful leader)
  • Potentatin noun (a powerful leader)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • despota noun (a powerful leader)
  • hatalmasság noun (a powerful leader)
  • kényúr noun (a powerful leader)
  • potentát noun (a powerful leader)

Icelandic

4 entries
  • burgeis noun (a powerful leader)
  • höfðingi noun (a powerful leader)
  • valdamaður noun (a powerful leader)
  • þjóðhöfðingi noun (a powerful leader)

Ido

1 entries
  • potento noun (a powerful leader)

Irish

2 entries
  • monarc noun (a powerful leader)
  • rialaitheoir noun (a powerful leader)

Italian

2 entries
  • condottiere noun (a powerful leader)
  • podestà noun (a powerful leader)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • вла́стелин noun (a powerful leader)
  • мо́ќник noun (a powerful leader)

Manx

1 entries
  • flah noun (a powerful leader)

Middle English

1 entries
  • potestat noun (a powerful leader)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

Polish

2 entries
  • magnat noun (a powerful leader)
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • potentado noun (a powerful leader)
  • soberano noun (a powerful leader)

Romanian

1 entries
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

Russian

1 entries
  • властели́н noun (a powerful leader)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • cumhachdach noun (a powerful leader)

Slovak

1 entries
  • potentát noun (a powerful leader)

Spanish

4 entries
  • capo noun (a powerful leader)
  • líder noun (a powerful leader)
  • líder máximo noun (a powerful leader)
  • podestá noun (a powerful leader)

Swedish

1 entries
  • potentat noun (a powerful leader)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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The folly and inhumanity of the “kings of the world” generate wars, genocides, and with impunity kill their “enemies” through starvation, and the potentate who has the most sophisticated and lethal weapons will prevail with his whims.

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But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die, For that's the end of humane miſerie.

Source: wiktionary

She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.

Source: wiktionary

Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.

Source: wiktionary

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