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How to pronounce “tyrant”
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Pronunciation guide for tyrant
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tyrant with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- This is what democracy looks like
that they, and not a king or a tyrant, must rule themselves.
- Definition summary
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tyrant
This is what democracy looks like
that they, and not a king or a tyrant, must rule themselves.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tyrant”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
- (obsolete) Any monarch or governor.
- A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
- (by extension) Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
- (by extension) A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence 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.
- [Adjective]
- (uncommon) Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
- (transitive, obsolete) To tyrannize.
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