dictatorship

dictatorship

English

Etymology

dictator +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)ʃɪp/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹʃɪp/

Noun

dictatorship (plural dictatorships)

1. A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
2. A government which exercises autocratic rule.

   There were no elections during Franco's dictatorship.

3. Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.

Synonyms

• autocracy
• dictatorialism

Derived terms

• antidictatorship
• dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
• dictatorship of the majority
• dictatorship of the proletariat
• nondictatorship
• petro-dictatorship

 

Translations

a government led by a dictator

Afrikaans: diktatuur Albanian: diktaturë (sq) f Arabic: دِكْتَاتُورِيَّة‎ f (diktātōriyya), دِيكْتَاتُورِيَّة‎ f (diktātōriyya) Armenian: բռնապետություն (hy) (bṙnapetutʿyun), դիկտատուրա (hy) (diktatura), բռնակալություն (hy) (bṙnakalutʿyun) Asturian: dictadura f Azerbaijani: diktatura, diktatorluq Belarusian: дыктату́ра f (dyktatúra) Breton: diktatouriezh f Bulgarian: диктату́ра (bg) f (diktatúra) Burmese: အာဏာရှင်စနစ် (my) (anahrangca.nac) Catalan: dictadura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 獨裁 (zh), 独裁 (zh) (dúcái), 專政 (zh), 专政 (zh) (zhuānzhèng) Czech: diktatura (cs) f Danish: diktatur (da) n Dutch: dictatuur (nl) f Esperanto: diktatoreco, diktaturo Estonian: diktatuur Finnish: diktatuuri (fi) French: dictature (fr) f Galician: ditadura (gl) f Georgian: დიქტატურა (dikṭaṭura) German: Diktatur (de) f, Gewaltherrschaft (de) f, Willkürherrschaft (de) f, Cäsarenherrschaft f Greek: δικτατορία (el) f (diktatoría) Hebrew: דִּיקְטָטוּרָה‎ (he) f (diktatúra) Hindi: तानाशाही (hi) f (tānāśāhī), अधिनायकतंत्र (hi) m (adhināyaktantra) Hungarian: diktatúra (hu) Icelandic: einræði (is) m Irish: deachtóireacht f Italian: dittatura (it) f Japanese: 独裁政治 (どくさいせいじ, dokusaiseiji), 独裁 (ja) (どくさい, dokusai) Kazakh: өктемдік (öktemdık), диктатура (kk) (diktatura) Khmer: អំណាចផ្ដាច់ការ (ʼɑmnaac phdac kaa) Korean: 독재(獨裁) (ko) (dokjae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: dîktatorî Kyrgyz: диктатура (ky) (diktatura) Lao: ລະບອບຜະເດັດການ (la bǭp pha det kān) Latvian: diktatūra f Lithuanian: diktatūra (lt) f Macedonian: диктату́ра f (diktatúra) Malay: kediktatoran, diktatur Manx: ardreillaght f Mongolian: Cyrillic: дарангуйлал (mn) (darangujlal) Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠩᠭᠤᠶᠢᠯᠠᠯ (daruŋɣuyilal) Norman: dictatuthe f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: diktatur (no) n Nynorsk: diktatur n Occitan: dictadura f Pashto: ديکتاتوري‎ f (diktātori), ډيکټاټوري‎ f (ḍekṭāṭori) Persian: دیکتاتوری‎ (fa) (diktâturi) Polish: dyktatura (pl) f Portuguese: ditadura (pt) f Romanian: dictatură (ro) f Russian: диктату́ра (ru) f (diktatúra) Rusyn: діктату́ра f (diktatúra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: диктату́ра f Roman: diktatúra (sh) f Slovak: diktatúra f Slovene: diktatura (sl) f Spanish: dictadura (es) f Swahili: udikteta class u Swedish: diktatur (sv) c Tajik: диктатура (diktatura) Tamil: சர்வாதிகாரம் (ta) (carvātikāram) Tatar: диктатура (diktatura) Telugu: నియంతృత్వము (te) (niyantr̥tvamu) Thai: ระบอบเผด็จการ (rá-bɔ̀ɔp-pà-dèt-gaan) Tibetan: སྲིད་དབར་སྒེར་འཛིན (srid dbar sger 'dzin) Turkish: diktatörlük (tr) Turkmen: diktatura Ukrainian: диктату́ра (uk) f (dyktatúra) Urdu: آمِرِیَت‎ (ur) f (āmiriyat), تاناشاہی‎ f (tānāśāhī) Uyghur: دىكتاتۇرا‎ (diktatura) Uzbek: diktatura (uz) Vietnamese: chế độ độc tài, nền chuyên chính Yiddish: דיקטאַטור‎ f (diktatur)