Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dionysius_the_elder

1 sense of dionysius the elder

Sense 1
Dionysius, Dionysius the Elder -- (the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> tyrant -- (in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it)