What Does Potentate Mean in the Dictionary?

noun. a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.

What does potentate mean?

potentate • \POH-tun-tayt\ • noun. : ruler, sovereign; broadly : one who wields great power or sway. Examples: His work as a high-level diplomat frequently brings him into contact with foreign potentates.

How do you use potentate in a sentence?

Potentate sentence example
  1. Valdemar was now, after the king of England, the most powerful potentate in the north of Europe. ...
  2. The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.
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