Definizione monolingua

potentate

potentate (plural potentates)

1. A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
   • 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, act iii, scene 2

     But Kings and mightie?t Potentates mu?t die,
     For thats the end of humane mi?erie.

   • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, ""Sister Carrie""

     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.

Definizione dizionario potentate

	condottiere
	a powerful leader

	podestà
	a powerful leader

monarca

potentato

Altri significati:

An absolute ruler with unbounded power.

A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler