dictatorship

English

Etymology

dictator +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)ʃɪp/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹʃɪp/

Noun

dictatorship (plural dictatorships)

A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
A government which exercises autocratic rule.
Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.

Derived terms

Translations

a government led by a dictator

Albanian: diktaturë (sq) f
Arabic: دِكْتَاتُورِيَّة‎ f (diktātōriyya), دِيكْتَاتُورِيَّة‎ f (diktātōriyya)
Armenian: դիկտատուրա (hy) (diktatura)
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
Greek: δικτατορία (el) f (diktatoría)
Hebrew: דיקטטורה‎ (he) f (diqt'at'ura)
Hindi: तानाशाही (hi) f (tānāśāhī)
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 (öktemdik), диктатура (kk) (dïktatwra)
Korean: 독재 (ko) (dokjae) (獨裁 (ko))

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
Mongolian: дарангуйлал (mn) (darangujlal)
Norman: dictatuthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diktatur (no) n

Nynorsk: diktatur n
Persian: دیکتاتوری‎ (fa) (diktâturi)
Polish: dyktatura (pl) f
Portuguese: ditadura (pt) f
Romanian: dictatură (ro) f, guvernare dictatorială f
Russian: диктату́ра (ru) f (diktatúra)
Rusyn: діктатура f (diktatura)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: диктатура f

Roman: diktatura (sh) f
Slovak: diktatúra f
Slovene: diktatura (sl) f
Spanish: dictadura (es) f
Swahili: udikteta
Swedish: diktatur (sv) c
Tajik: диктатура (diktatura)
Thai: ระบอบเผด็จการ (rá bòp pà dèt gaan)
Turkish: diktatörlük (tr)
Ukrainian: диктату́ра (uk) f (dyktatúra)
Uzbek: diktatura (uz)
Vietnamese: chế độ độc tài, nền chuyên chính
Yiddish: דיקטאַטור‎ f (diktatur)

Synonyms

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