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In some senses, potentate is marked as derogatory, obsolete, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.
potentate
UK /ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/ US /ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt/
noun 4adj 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
new
POTENTATE + NOUN
treasures
Definitions
noun
1
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die, For that's the end of humane miſerie.
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.
2
A powerful polity or institution.
3
A self-important person.
4
Someone acting in an important role.
"Those foreigners," thought the female potentate of the Sun, "won't know what to order; but I'll show them what a good supper is."
adj
1
Regnant, powerful, dominant.
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Synonyms
noun — a ruler who is unconstrained by law
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But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die, For that's the end of humane miſerie.
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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.
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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.
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