Difference between Dictator and Potentate

DICTATOR vs POTENTATE: NOUN

A speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
A person behaves in an tyrannical manner
An absolute ruler.
A tyrant; a despot.
An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
One who dictates.
A person possessing unlimited powers of government; an absolute ruler.
A person invested with or exercising absolute authority of any kind; one who assumes to control or prescribe the actions of others; one who dictates.
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war
A ruler who is unconstrained by law
A tyrannical boss, or authority figure
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk)
A ruler or Führer, the highest level of authority.
A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government

A ruler who is unconstrained by law
One who has the power and position to rule over others; a monarch.
One who dominates or leads a group or an endeavor.
A person who possesses power or sway; a prince; sovereign; monarch; ruler.
A power; state; sovereignty.
A trade-name of an explosive consisting of a mixture of finely divided guncotton (about 45 to 65 per cent.) with potassium nitrate.
One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler

Autocracy, Regime, Strongman, Despot, Premier, Bully, President, Defector, Hussein, Ruler, Autocrat, Dictatorship, Tyrant, Potentate, Authoritarian

Aristocrat, Aristocracy, Grand vizier, Khedive, Viceroy, Tyrant, Courtier, Nobleman, Vassal, Autocrat, Overlord, Satrap, Ruler, Despot, Dictator

Despotism, Autocracy, Strongman, Despot, Premier, Bully, President, Defector, Hussein, Ruler, Autocrat, Dictatorship, Tyrant, Potentate, Authoritarian

Aristocrat, Aristocracy, Grand vizier, Khedive, Viceroy, Tyrant, Courtier, Nobleman, Vassal, Autocrat, Overlord, Satrap, Ruler, Despot, Dictator

Taika Waititi, is Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler himself.
The man is moron want to be dictator.
Plus, Carrie learns which evil dictator invented fluoride.
But Augustus refused to be called a dictator.
The Dictator - how offensive will it be?.
Clinton Rossiter and James Ford Rhodes called him a dictator, but a good dictator, because of all the violations of civil liberties.
It is with her authoritarian potential which she shows that a dictator is a dictator, regardless to gender.
Pilsudski was hardly a dictator in the sense that either Hitler or Stalin was a dictator.
President Trump has gone from acting like a dictator to prostrating himself before a foreign dictator on the world stage.
US will have a dictator, a true dictator like Hitler.

Porter was elected Imperial Potentate, head of the Order for all North America.
She wielded a power greater than that of any potentate living.
Vacancies in appointive office shall be filled by the Potentate.
Shriners International and the Imperial Potentate or his designee.
Invincible Supreme Potentate wouldn't let him attend tonight.".
Beffa Brewery executive and past imperial potentate of Shrine.
The Akaviri Potentate practices slavery and worships Molag Bal.
Engineer, Western Electric, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine.
Imperial Potentate and conducts the Imperial Potentate to the pew or place where the Imperial divan is seated or in attendance.
Potentate, the chairman of the Jurisprudence and Laws Committee, General Counsel, and the Imperial Potentate.