dynast

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The latest proof came when Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, dramatically removed herself as a possible replacement for Hillary Rodham Clinton - a dynast by marriage - in the Senate seat from New York once held by her Uncle Bobby.

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  1. noun A ruler, especially a hereditary one.

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  • Liverpool are still locked in talks about selling the club to the Al-Kharafi family in Kuwait, despite reports that the secretive Middle East dynast ... —  Football.co.uk news feed
  • The latest proof came when Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, dramatically removed herself as a possible replacement for Hillary Rodham Clinton - a dynast by marriage - in the Senate seat from New York once held by her Uncle Bobby. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • The year 1848 was just beginning, Mr. Merry writes, "and already it was reaching a white-hot intensity - kindled in part by that dynamic dynast of American politics, Henry Clay, whose magnified presence shone over the nation like a late afternoon sun over the sea." —  The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
  • In fact, a moment's consideration by a hypothetical body of Eastern dynast-makers not of an emperor but of an empress. —  The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
  • He not only withdrew all opposition to the additional five years of command in Gaul which the subservient Senate had unconstitutionally decreed to the "dynast," but induced his brother Quintus to volunteer for service in the coming invasion of Britain. —  Early Britain—Roman Britain
 

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  1. Latin dynastēs, from Greek dunastēs, lord, from dunasthai, to be able; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French dynaste = Portuguese dynasta = Spanish Italian dinasta, from Latin dynastes (Middle Latin also dynasta), from Greek δυνάστης, a lord, master, ruler, from δύνασθαι, be able, strong: see dynam.
 

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