SWAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swayer mean? 

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

1. a person who rules or commands

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who rules or commands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ruler; swayer

Context example:

swayer of the universe

Hypernyms ("swayer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swayer"):

basileus (a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire)

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

Tudor (a member of the dynasty that ruled England)

grand Turk; sultan (the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire))

Stuart (a member of the royal family that ruled Scotland and England)

crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)

Arab chief; sheik; sheikh; tribal sheik; tribal sheikh (the leader of an Arab village or family)

dynast (a hereditary ruler)

regent (someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch)

puppet leader; puppet ruler (a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government)

Pharaoh; Pharaoh of Egypt (the title of the ancient Egyptian kings)

lord; master; overlord (a person who has general authority over others)

oligarch (one of the rulers in an oligarchy)

Moghul; Mogul (a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857)

khan (a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries)

Hanoverian (any of the British rulers who were members of the House of Hanover)

hakim (a Muslim ruler or governor or judge)

ethnarch (the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority)

ameer; amir; emeer; emir (an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia))

dictator; potentate (a ruler who is unconstrained by law)

calif; caliph; kalif; kaliph; khalif; khalifah (the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth)

Bourbon (a member of the European royal family that ruled France)

Inca (a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family))

Instance hyponyms:

Tamburlaine; Tamerlane; Timur; Timur Lenk (Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405))