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How to pronounce dynast in English?

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Type Words
Type of ruler, swayer

Examples of dynast

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Now Manmohan is a servant of Sonia Gandhi, Congress president and current dynast.
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A dynast who had passed his toddler years was regarded suitable and old enough.
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The last dynast, Casimir the Great, left only female issue and a grandson.
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He was the last Merovingian dynast to exercise any authority on his own.
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He was the last Merovingian dynast to wield any real royal power.
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An unnamed daughter of his was betrothed to Rhodri ab Owain, a dynast of the ruling family of Gwynedd.
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He was the most successful dynast of the condottieri.
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From autocrat it is but a short leap to dynast.
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The appointments confirm expectations that young Un is being groomed to succeed his ailing father as a communist dynast.
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More examples
  • A hereditary ruler
  • Historians traditionally consider a state's history within a framework of successive dynasties, particularly with such nations as China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire. ...
  • (The Dynasts) The Dynasts is "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes" by Thomas Hardy, whose parts were published in 1904, 1906 and 1908 respectively. ...
  • 1) hereditary ruler who reigns by right of being the head of a dynasty. 2) hereditary head of a dynasty, whether regnant or non-regnant. 3) member of a dynasty, esp. one lawfully entitled to succeed to its headship.