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potentate
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
A powerful polity or institution.
(derogatory) A self-important person.
(humorous) Someone acting in an important role.
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"Those foreigners," thought the female potentate of the Sun, "won't know what to order; but I'll show them what a good supper is."
From the aproned pot-scrubber to the flanneled potentate, everyone liked me, everyone petted me. Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed towards me like towers of Pisa. Ruined Russian princesses who could not pay my father, bought me expensive bonbons.
(obsolete) Regnant, powerful, dominant.
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