Synonym: despot, disciplinarian, martinet, oppressor, slave driver, taskmaster. Similar words: grant, errant, warrant, hydrant, frantic, vagrant, aberrant, warranty. Meaning: ['taɪərənt] 
n. 1. a cruel and oppressive dictator 2. in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it 3. any person who exercises power in a cruel way.
n. 1. a cruel and oppressive dictator 2. in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it 3. any person who exercises power in a cruel way. 
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1 The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. 
2 The people designated the King as a tyrant.
3 The tyrant was overthrown.
4 The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves.
5 The people rose against the oppressor/tyrant/dictator.
6 He was a cruel and capricious tyrant.
7 His boss is a complete tyrant.
8 The country was ruled by a despotic tyrant.
9 My headmaster was a real tyrant.
10 He ran a sword through the tyrant.
11 Her grandfather was a tyrant who insisted on absolute silence at the dinner table.
12 He was a self-opinionated, overbearing tyrant,[www.Sentencedict.com] and he was the last man she should want to tangle with.
13 Little Kyle is an absolute tyrant in the family.
14 Delwyn Pepper, nascent tyrant, was voted treasurer.
15 But to a tyrant such are hateful.
16 Many consider the general an unrepentant and brutal tyrant.
17 The Romanian tyrant Ceaucescu was overthrown in 1989.
18 Instead of portraying a puffy-faced old tyrant, Picasso had drawn a young hero.
19 Grown to young manhood, Krishna killed his tyrant uncle and won universal renown.
20 When the islanders knew themselves freed from the tyrant it was easy for Perseus to find Danae and Dictys.
21 She was a tyrant who had absolutely no tolerance for mistakes.
22 Tamir, one of several sons of the exiled ruler, vowed he would liberate his country from the tyrant.
23 Within weeks, it became perfectly plain that we were in the grip of a tyrant.
24 We will not bend to the will of a tyrant.
25 In the book, he depicts his father as a tyrant.
26 As if pleading helped - she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant.
27 The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
28 This year, however, Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home.
29 Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him.
30 He was very competent and very ambitious, but he was also a tyrant.