DIONYSIUS

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• DIONYSIUS (noun)
  The noun DIONYSIUS has 1 sense:

1. the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC)

  Familiarity information: DIONYSIUS used as a noun is very rare.

• DIONYSIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dionysius; Dionysius the Elder

Instance hypernyms:

tyrant (in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it)

 Context examples 

For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis, with so much justice, recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I consider that when a dependent does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her; indeed I have already, through my future mother-in-law, heard of a place that I think will suit: it is to undertake the education of the five daughters of Mrs. Dionysius O'Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)