POTENTATE Synonyms

• a cruel and oppressive dictator

• a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• a person having great power

• the male ruler of an empire

• red table grape of California

• large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings

• large richly colored butterfly

• a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor

• a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

• United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)

• a very wealthy or powerful businessman

• United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

• preeminence in a particular category or group or field

• a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward

• one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king

• (chess) the weakest but the most important piece

• a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

• large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed

• an executive officer of a firm or corporation

• the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

• the office of the United States head of state

• the chief executive of a republic

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• the head administrative officer of a college or university

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• a person who rules or commands

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• greatest in status or authority or power