ruler
noun
a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
rulers
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pluralof ruler.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These were people who ruled a country, the heirs to generations of rulers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
And if not, what would we actually do to stop the Islamic Republic’s rulers from exacting vengeance?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
More than 1,000 years after his death, the remains of what may be Tsar Samuel, one of the last major rulers of the First Bulgarian Empire, are returning "home" on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
They must be important rulers, and immensely old, but...
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
