Word Meanings - RULER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding

Additional info about word: RULER

1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 . Parallel ruler. See under Parallel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RULER)

• Director
• Ruler
• controller
• manager
• master
• leader
• guide
• Head
• Top
• crown
• chief
• ruler
• mind
• source
• section
• division
• topic
• gathering
• culmination
• crisis
• leadership
• commander
• acme
• summit
• Master
• Lord
• governor
• owner
• possessor
• proprietor
• teacher
• professor
• adept

Related words: (words related to RULER)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• CROWN-SAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.