politics

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɒl.ɪ.tɪks/

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Etymology

From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s "τα πολιτικά" ('affairs of state').

Noun

politics (plural uncountable, sometimes treated as singular uncountable)

1. The methodology and activities associated with running a government.
2. The profession of conducting political affairs.
3. One's political stands and opinions.
4. Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.

Quotations

• 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:

  There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics.

Derived terms

Terms derived from politics

geopolitics necropolitics palace politics petropolitics

politic political politician politicize

sexual politics wedge politics

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to politics

police

policy

polity

Translations

Translations

Afrikaans: politiek (af) Arabic: سياسة (ar) (siyāsa) f. Armenian: քաղաքականություն (hy) (k'aġak'akanut'yun) Azeri: siyasət (az) Bashkir: сәйәсәт (səyəsət) Belarusian: палітыка (be) (palítyka) f. Bengali: রাজনীতি (bn) (rajniti) Bosnian: politika (bs) f. Bulgarian: политика (bg) (polítika) f. Burmese: နိုင်ငံရေး (my) (nain-gan-jei:) Chinese: Mandarin: 政治 (zh) (zhèngzhì) Croatian: polìtika (hr) f. Czech: politika (cs) f. Danish: politik (da) c. Dutch: politiek (nl) f. Esperanto: politiko (eo) Estonian: poliitika (et) Finnish: politiikka (fi) French: politique (fr) f. Georgian: პოლიტიკა (ka) (politika) German: Politik (de) f. Greek: πολιτική (el) (politikí) f. Haitian Creole: politik Hebrew: פוליטיקה (he) (pōlīṭīqeh) f. Hindi: राजनीति (hi) (rājnīti) f. Hungarian: politika (hu) Indonesian: politik (id) Interlingua: politica (ia) f. Irish: polaitíocht (ga) Italian: politica (it) f. Japanese: 政治 (ja) (せいじ, seiji)

Kazakh: саясат (kk) (sayasat) Khmer: នយោបាយវិទ្យា (km) (nak yo bay vityea), នយោបាយសាស្ត្រ (km) (nak yo bay sas) Korean: 정치 (ko) (jeongchi) (政治 (ko)) Kyrgyz: саясат (ky) (sayasat) Lao: ການເມືອງ (lo) (kaan-myang) Latvian: politika (lv) f. Lithuanian: politika (lt) f. Macedonian: политика (mk) (polítika) f. Norwegian: politikk (no) m. Pashto: سياست (ps) Persian: سیاست (fa) (siyâsat) Polish: polityka (pl) f. Portuguese: política (pt) f. Romanian: politică (ro) f. Russian: политика (ru) (polítika) f. Scottish Gaelic: sluagh-iùl (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: политика (sh) f. Roman: politika (sh) f. Slovak: politika (sk) f. Slovene: politika (sl) f. Spanish: política (es) f. Swedish: politik (sv) c. (1,2) Tajik: сиёсат (tg) (siyosat) Tamil: அரசியல் (ta) (araciyal) Tatar: сәясәт (tt) (səyasət) Telugu: రాజకీయాలు (te) (rājakēyālu) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Thai: การเมือง (th) (kaanmeung) Turkish: politika (tr), siyaset (tr) Ukrainian: політика (uk) (polítyka) f. Urdu: راج نیتی (ur) (rāj-nīti) f., سیاست (ur) (siyāsat) f. Vietnamese: chính trị (vi) (政治 (vi))

External links

• politics in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• politics in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911