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Chinese to English Dictionary (1-5 of 7)
Listen- tyrant; despot
- 1. despotic; tyrannical
- 2. despot; bully
- 独霸一方
- [dúbàyìfāng]
- lord it over a district; be a local despot
- 桀纣
- [jiézhòu]
- King Jie of the end of the Xia Dynasty and King Zhou of the end of the Shang Dynasty. It is said that they were both despots; a despot who controls a country by force.
- despot
English Dictionary (1-1 of 1)
- despot
- ['dεspɒt]
- 1. an absolute or tyrannical ruler; autocrat or tyrant
- 2. any person in power who acts tyrannically
- 3. a title borne by numerous persons of rank in the later Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires
- 4. C16: from Medieval Latin despota, from Greek despot e s lord, master; related to Latin domus house
Examples (1-4 of 4)
- the despot of Servia → despot
- 他是地方一霸。
- He is a local despot. → 霸
- 听说李霸天已经吹灯拔蜡了， 乡亲们心里都很高兴。
- Hearing that the despot Li had died, all the villagers were very happy. → 吹灯拔蜡
- 渔民们自发地组织起来共同对抗渔霸。
- Fishermen organized spontaneously to struggle against the local despot that had monopolized the fishing market. → 渔霸
