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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ATryn, Taryn, ranty, tryna

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French tyran, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tyrannus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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, feminine tyranne)

1. tyrant
2. bully

Further reading

• “tyran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

tyran

1. Alternative form of tyraunt

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Middle French

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

1. tyrant

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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