Outside view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, showing the distinctive Tudor arch. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485â1603) and even beyond.
Full Definition of TYRANT. 1. a: an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution b: a usurper of sovereignty. 2. a: a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally b: one resembling an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power.
Definition. A tyrant in ancient Greece meant something different from our modern concept of a tyrant as simply a cruel and oppressive despot. A tyrant was little more than an autocrat or leader who had overturned an existing regime of a Greek polis and was, therefore, an illegitimate ruler, a usurper.