noun
Meaning 1
A female dictator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dictatress
Antonyms: none provided
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dictatrix
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noun
Meaning 2
A dictatorial entity personified as female; that which dictates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 1756, George Anderson, A Remonstrance against Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Religion cited in a review in The Monthly Review, Volume 16, 1757, p. 240, [...] how can you [...] plead a religious conscience as a dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God’s moral attributes?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dictatress
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin dictātrīx. By surface analysis, dictate + -trix.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cornish: turantes — female dictator
- Finnish: diktaattori — female dictator
- German: Diktatorin — female dictator
- Polish: dyktatorka — female dictator