Potentate

Noun

 * 1) A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
 * 2) * 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, act iii, scene 2
 * But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die, For that's the end of humane miſerie.
 * 1) * 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.

Related terms

 * potence
 * potency
 * potent


 * potential
 * potentiality

Thesaurus
anointed king, chief, chieftain, crowned head, dynast, emperor, grand duke, high chief, imperator, king, king-emperor, kinglet, lord paramount, majesty, monarch, overlord, paramount, petty king, prince, prince consort, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, sovereign, suzerain, tetrarch

Etymology
From potentat, from, from  potentatus:, from  potens:, the active present participle of possum:.

Translations

 * Armenian: տիրակալ, գերիշխան,  միապետ
 * Czech: potentát
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, podestat
 * German: Potentant
 * Icelandic: valdamaður, burgeis , höfðingi , þjóðhöfðingi


 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: моќник,
 * Manx: flah
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, magnat
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, potentado,  podestá,  líder máximo,