protectorate

protectorate

English

Etymology

protector +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧tec‧tor‧ate

Noun

protectorate (plural protectorates)

1. Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell.
2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.

   Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914.

3. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.

Translations

government by a protector

Bulgarian: регентство (bg) n (regentstvo) Catalan: protectorat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: protektorát Dutch: protectoraat (nl) n Esperanto: protektorato Finnish: protektoraatti (fi) French: protectorat (fr) m German: Protektorat (de) n, Schutzgebiet (de) n Italian: protettorato (it) m Japanese: 保護者による政府 Khmer: អាណាព្យាបាល (km) (aa naa pyiebaal) Norwegian: Bokmål: protektorat n Nynorsk: protektorat n Portuguese: protetorado m Russian: протектора́т (ru) m (protɛktorát) Spanish: protectorado (es) m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: protektorat (sv) n Ukrainian: протектора́т m (protektorát)

a protected autonomous state

Bulgarian: протекторат (bg) m (protektorat) Chinese: Mandarin: 保護國／保护国 (zh) (bǎohùguó) Danish: protektorat (da) n Dutch: protectoraat (nl) n Finnish: protektoraatti (fi), suojelualue French: protectorat (fr) m German: Protektorat (de) n, Schutzgebiet (de) n Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 保護国 (ja) Norwegian: Bokmål: protektorat n Nynorsk: protektorat n Portuguese: protetorado m Russian: протектора́т (ru) m (protɛktorát) Spanish: protectorado (es) m Swedish: protektorat (sv) n Ukrainian: протектора́т m (protektorát)

References

• protectorate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913