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Examples

• All

• The prisoner, Il Duce, enters.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Il Duce made us a world power again.

  Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

• And the Duce is never wrong.

  The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

• The place where Il Duce was shot.

  Fiction book (1992)

• You must dress like II Duce himself for the promotion.

  Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930)

• - Why do you want to meet the Duce?

  Bugsy (1991)

• As they speak, Il Duce watches.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Our fearless leader, II Duce, Benito Mussolini!

  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

• So Il Duce decreed that the cave homes would be razed and replaced with modern monolithic structures.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, promised to restore Italy's former glory.

Synonyms

M

Mussolini

vsduce

53 7.0

An Italian fascist dictator who ruled Italy as prime minister from 1922 to 1943

names a title rather than the person who held that office

D

doge

vsduce

• Formal

3 9.9

The leader chosen for life in the old republics of Venice and Genoa

refers to a leader title but in a different historical republic context

I

Il Duce

vsduce

1 9.9

The title used by Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945

is the general word for a leader often used especially for that person

B

Benito Mussolini

vsduce

6.3

An Italian fascist dictator who led Italy from 1922 to 1943

names a title rather than the person who held that office

Compounds

I

Il Duce

1 9.9

The title used by Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945

I

Il Duce

• Offensive

9.9

A name people use to compare a political leader to Mussolini as a dictator

Surface Forms

Etymology