1PGGOVERENMENTa ruler who has complete power and uses it in a cruel and unfair way 暴君,专制君主
The country had long been ruled by tyrants.
这个国家长期受暴君统治。
2CRUELsomeone who has power over other people, and uses it cruelly or unfairly 暴君似的人,专横的人
My headmaster was a real tyrant.
我的校长真是个暴君。
Examples from the Corpus
tyrant• She was a tyrant who had absolutely no tolerance for mistakes.• Little Kyle is an absolutetyrant in the family.• Comparisons between twentieth-century dictators and the classicaltyrants of Ancient Rome are alluring but misleading.• The Romanian tyrant Ceaucescu was overthrown in 1989.• Small children are encouraged to be small tyrants, to react violently if thwarted.• When the islanders knew themselves freed from the tyrant it was easy for Perseus to find Danae and Dictys.
Origintyrant
(1200-1300)Old Frenchtyran, tyrant, from Latintyrannus, from Greektyrannos