ruler
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ruler/ˈruːlə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person or agent exercising government or control.
- 2 a straight-edged strip of rigid material, marked at regular intervals and used to draw straight lines or measure distances.
– derivatives
rulership noun.
rulership noun.
'ruler' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolute
- anarchy
- Angevin
- arbiter
- arbitrary
- arbitration
- -arch
- archon
- archosaur
- autocrat
- burgrave
- caliph
- camarilla
- chief
- customs
- Dalai Lama
- despot
- dictator
- domain
- duke
- durbar
- dynast
- ecclesiarch
- emperor
- eparch
- exarch
- ferule
- fitna
- God
- hakim
- heresiarch
- hierarch
- Inca
- king
- kleptocrat
- loyalist
- marchioness
- Negus
- Nizam
- oligarch
- overlord
- Pantocrator
- parallel ruler
- pharaoh
- potentate
- princeling
- queen
- rebel
- rebellion
- rector
