Associations to the word «Potentate»

Wiktionary

POTENTATE, noun. A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler
POTENTATE, noun. A powerful polity or institution.
POTENTATE, adjective. (obsolete) Regnant, powerful, dominant.

Dictionary definition

POTENTATE, noun. A ruler who is unconstrained by law.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin