OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4713

autocrat

/ˈɔːtəkɹæt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
autócrata
An absolute ruler with infinite power.
Indeed, we take this trip at a time when the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy. As Russia wages its premeditated, illegal war against Ukraine, killing thousands…
Your salary is high; you are to have apartments in the house; and to be the autocrat of the library, where, I shrewdly suspect, your reign will be undisturbed.
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