tyran

See also: tyrän

English

Noun

tyran (plural tyrans)

  1. Obsolete form of tyrant.
    • Edmund Spenser
      Lordly love is such a tyran fell.

Verb

tyran (third-person singular simple present tyrans, present participle tyranning, simple past and past participle tyranned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To act tyrannically towards.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tyran in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French tyran, borrowed from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos). Replaced Old French tirant.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ti.ʁɑ̃/
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  • Homophones: tirant, tyrans

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

  1. tyrant
  2. bully

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

tyran

  1. Alternative form of tyraunt

Middle French

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

  1. tyrant

Norman

Etymology

From Old French tirant, from Latin tyrannus (“ruler, monarch; tyrant, despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “lord, master, sovereign, tyrant”).

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

  1. (Jersey) tyrant
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