Other forms: autocrats
An autocrat is a ruler who answers to nobody. A born autocrat.
The word is used of managers and headmasters as often as of monarchs. An autocrat is defined by having no check rather than by being cruel.
1nounautocratA ruler who answers to nobody.
“He ran the department as an autocrat for eighteen years.”
autocrat is a ruler.
Greek autokrates means self-ruling, from autos, self, plus kratos, power.
French
autocrate
English, today
autocrat
Built from
Borrowed from French autocrate. French autocrate, itself from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (“sovereign”), from αὐτο- (“self”) (combining form of αὐτός) + κράτος (“strength, power”) + -ης. by surface analysis, auto- + -crat.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA