| 单词 | people-king |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeople-king people-king n. [after classical Latin populus rēx, French peuple-roi (1735 in Voltaire)] now rare a sovereign people. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > [noun] > a sovereign people people-king1796 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 39 That Great Britain should..bid with the rest, for the mercy of the People-King. 1813 tr. F. C. Pouqueville Trav. through Morea 125 In the estimation of these barbarians, the name of Romans, of the people-king, is equivalent to that of vassal or slave. 1866 J. L. Motley Let. 25 July in Corr. (1889) II. vii. 239 A Hapsburg is not like a People-King, which cannot, save by annihilation, die. 1999 French Hist. Stud. 22 602 Through the general will, the people-king now corresponds mythically with power; this belief is the matrix of totalitarianism. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。