Potentate vs Emperor - What's the difference?
potentate | emperor | Related terms |
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
* 1592 , , Henry VI, Part I , act iii, scene 2
* 1900 , , "Sister Carrie"
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
(medieval political theory ) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
* 2001 , Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life (page 39)
Potentate is a related term of emperor.
As nouns the difference between potentate and emperor
is that potentate is a powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler while emperor is the male monarch or ruler of an empire.potentate
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Noun
(en noun)- But Kings and mightie?t Potentates mu?t die,
For that's the end of humane mi?erie.
- She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
emperor
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Alternative forms
* emperour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
- But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors , etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles
