Potentate vs Kingpin - What's the difference?
potentate | kingpin | Related terms |
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
* 1592 , , Henry VI, Part I , act iii, scene 2
* 1900 , , "Sister Carrie"
(motorized vehicles) The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.
The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.
The most important person in an undertaking or organization.
The bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard.
As nouns the difference between potentate and kingpin
is that potentate is a powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler while kingpin is the axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.potentate
English
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.