English word senses marked with topical category "Heads of state"

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• Caesar (Proper name) An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.
• Führer (Noun) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany.
• Kaiser (Noun) An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.
• Rashtrapati (Noun) President of India
• Supreme Leader (Noun) The head of state and commander-in-chief of the entire armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the authority to dismiss the Iranian president. The Supreme Leader is also the highest-ranking spiritual leader in Iran.
• Vladika (Noun) The head of church and state in Montenegro until 1852; the prince bishop.
• absolute monarch (Noun) The ruler of an absolute monarchy.
• amir (Noun) Alternative form of emir
• barracks emperor (Noun) An emperor who seized power by virtue of his command of the army.
• basileus (Noun) A title of the Byzantine emperor.
• caliph (Noun) The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
• caudillo (Noun) A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
• chancellor (Noun) A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.
• chancellor (Noun) A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.; Ellipsis of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• chancellor (Noun) The head of the government in some German-speaking countries.
• chancelloress (Noun) A female chancellor.
• chanyu (Noun) A supreme ruler of one or more nomadic tribes of Inner Asian peoples, at some point between the 4th century BCE and the 4th century CE; most notably a ruler of the Xiongnu.
• chief minister (Noun) The leader of government in many semi-autonomous and constituent federal states.
• consul (Noun) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
• consul (Noun) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
• consul (Noun) A councillor; A member of early modern city councils in southern France and Catalonia.
• consul (Noun) A councillor; An officer of the trading and merchant companies of early modern England.
• consul (Noun) A councillor; An official in various early modern port and trading towns, elected by resident foreign merchants to settle disputes among themselves and to represent them to the local authorities.
• czar (Noun) Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
• diarch (Noun) Either of the two rulers in a diarchy.
• emir (Noun) A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
• emperor (Noun) Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
• emperor (Noun) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
• emperor (Noun) A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
• emperor (Noun) Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
• empress (Noun) The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
• empress (Noun) The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
• empress (Noun) A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
• god-king (Noun) A statesman who holds all the state's powers and has religious significance to his constituency.
• god-king (Noun) A monarch who is also a god.
• god-king (Noun) A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.
• governor general (Noun) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.
• governor-general (Noun) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.
• gurkhan (Noun) A ruler of the Qara Khitai.
• head of state (Noun) The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.
• imperator (Noun) An emperor.
• khagan (Noun) A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
• khan (Noun) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
• khedive (Noun) The title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805–1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey.
• king (Noun) A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
• king (Verb) To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
• king (Verb) To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
• king (Verb) To dress and perform as a drag king.
• king of kings (Proper name) The title of an individual king who has other kings as subjects; in particular:; Jesus Christ.
• lord protector (Noun) The head of state of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• maharaja (Noun) A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor.
• maharajah (Noun) Alternative spelling of maharaja
• maharani (Noun) The wife of a maharajah; approximately, a queen consort.
• mayor of the palace (Noun) In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.
• mikado (Noun) A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.
• monarch (Noun) The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
• monarch (Noun) A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America.
• monarch (Noun) Any bird of the family Monarchidae.
• mpret (Noun) An Albanian monarch.
• negus (Noun) A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
• pharaoh (Noun) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
• president (Noun) The head of state of a republic.
• president (Noun) In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
• president (Noun) Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
• presidentress (Noun) A female president.
• prince regent (Noun) A prince who rules a country as a regent in place of a monarch who is unfit to rule for a particular reason.
• queen (Noun) A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.; The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
• regent (Noun) One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
• satrap (Noun) A governor of a Persian province.
• shah (Noun) A Ukrainian monetary unit.
• sovereign (Adjective) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
• sovereign (Noun) A monarch; the ruler of a country.
• sovereign (Noun) A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
• sovereign (Noun) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
• stadtholder (Noun) The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief of state of the Dutch Republic.
• sultan (Noun) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
• sultana (Noun) A female ruler of a sultanate.
• tenno (Noun) The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
• tlatoani (Noun) An emperor of the Aztec kingdom.
• tsar (Noun) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
• tsarina (Noun) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.
• vicereine (Noun) A woman who is a viceroy.
• viceroy (Noun) An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.

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