Frazier was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987, joining four teammates from the 1973 championship team: Reed, Jerry Lucas, Bill Bradley, and Dave DeBusschere. 1  Great Basketball Players.
British English: tyranny NOUN. A tyranny is a cruel, harsh, and unfair government in which a person or small group of people have power over everyone else.He described these regimes as tyrannies and dictatorships.
In English a tyrant has always been a cruel and oppressive ruler, but in ancient Greece, where the word comes from, this was not originally the case. In the 6th and 7th centuries bc a tyrant, or turannos, was simply a man who seized power unlawfully.