Dictatress

Quick meaning: Dictatress is a noun meaning A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.

Meaning

A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female.

Example Sentences

“How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let us make a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.”

What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:

[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.

1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29, Wellington’s first wife does not belong among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for dictatress

Depending on context, synonyms include dictatrix.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include despotess, mistress, she-devil, seductress, mistress-ship, tycooness.

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