tyrant

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtaɪɹənt/    美 /ˈtaɪɹənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession. historical
    — To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liueth still.
  2. Any monarch or governor. obsolete
    — Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
  3. A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
    — Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
  4. Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly. broadly
    — A plague vpon the Tyrant that I serue
  5. A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly. broadly
    — I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt.
  6. The tyrant birds, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
    — The Tyrant... The courage of this little Bird is singular.
动词 v.
  1. To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical. intransitive,obsolete
    — Let thy judgment be king, but not tyrant over it
  2. To tyrannize. obsolete,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant. uncommon
    — He was most tirant & cruell of all emperours.

词形变化

tyrants plural tyran alternative,obsolete tyran alternative,obsolete tyrants present,singular,third-person tyranting participle,present tyranted participle,past tyranted past tyran alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
black-backed water tyrant chat-tyrant ground tyrant pygmy tyrant shrike-tyrant tit-tyrant tody-tyrant tyrancy tyrant-air tyrant-bird tyrant-chat tyrant-craft tyrantess tyrant-fish tyrant flycatcher tyrant-hater tyrant-hating tyranthood tyrant-killer tyrant-killing tyrant-kind tyrantless tyrantlike tyrant-manakin tyrant-murder Tyrant period tyrant-queller tyrant-quelling tyrant-ridden tyrant-scouraging tyrant-shrike tyrant-slayer tyrant-tamer tyrant-wren wagtail-tyrant
相关词
tyranness tyrannical tyrannicide tyrannize tyrannous tyranny tyrantry tyrantship

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tyraunt, tiraunt, tyrant, tyrante, from Old French tyrant, from the addition of a terminal -t to tiran (cp. French tyran) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from Latin tyrannus (“despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “usurper, monarch, despot”), of uncertain origin.
词源 2
From Middle English tyraunt, tiraunt, tyrant, tyrante, from Old French tyrant, from the addition of a terminal -t to tiran (cp. French tyran) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from Latin tyrannus (“despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “usurper, monarch, despot”), of uncertain origin.
词源 3
From Middle English tyraunt, tiraunt, tyrant, tyrante, from Old French tyrant, from the addition of a terminal -t to tiran (cp. French tyran) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from Latin tyrannus (“despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “usurper, monarch, despot”), of uncertain origin.
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