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Japanese
Etymology
From English tyrant.
Pronunciation
Noun
タイラント • (tairanto)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) a tyrant (one who gains power and rules extralegally)
- Synonym: 僭主 (senshu)
- (rare) a despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly
- Synonyms: 暴君 (bōkun), 独裁者 (dokusaisha), 専制君主 (sensei kunshu)
- (rare, figuratively) tyrannical person
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- が、船長は、全く、始末にいかぬタイラントであった。それは、コセコセしたちしゃの葉のような感じのするタイラントだ。
- Ga, senchō wa, mattaku, shimatsu ni ikanu tairanto de atta. Sore wa, kosekose shita chisha no ha no yōna kanji no suru tairanto da.
- However, captain was, totally, an unmanageable tyrant. That is, a tyrant who felt like a fussy lettuce leaf.
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