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- Dictionarydictator/dɪkˈteɪtə/
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- 1. a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
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A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a polity. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency. Like the term tyrant, and to a lesser degree autocrat, dictator came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive rule. In mod... Wikipedia