censorship

English

Etymology

From censor +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsɚˌʃɪp/
• Hyphenation: cen‧sor‧ship

Noun

censorship (countable and uncountable, plural censorships)

1. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
   • 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1

     […] such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."

   • 2012, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Censorship Files, The: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

     The Infantes had contacts among left-wing groups that opposed the dictatorial regime in Spain and their visibility in these circles was a serious concern for the censorship authorities […]

2. (historical) The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.

Related terms

• bleep censor
• censor
• censorware

See also

• bowdlerisation
• media democracy
• moral panic

Translations

use of state or group power to control freedom of expression

• Albanian: censurë (sq) f
• Arabic: رَقَابَة f (raqāba)
• Armenian: գրաքննություն (hy) (grakʻnnutʻyun), ցենզուրա (hy) (cʻenzura)
• Azerbaijani: senzura
• Belarusian: цэнзу́ра f (cenzúra)
• Bengali: বিবাচন (bibacon)
• Bulgarian: цензу́ра (bg) f (cenzúra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 審查／审查 (zh) (shěnchá), 审查 (zh) (shěnchá), 檢查／检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá), 检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá)

• Czech: cenzura (cs) f
• Danish: censur c
• Dutch: censuur (nl) f
• Esperanto: cenzuro
• Estonian: tsensuur
• Finnish: sensuuri (fi)
• French: censure (fr) f
• Georgian: ცენზურა (cenzura)
• German: Zensur (de) f
• Greek: λογοκρισία (el) (logokrisía)
• Hebrew: צֶנְזוּרָה f (tsenzurá)
• Hindi: सेंसरशिप f (sẽsarśip), अभिवेचन m (abhivecan)
• Hungarian: cenzúra (hu)
• Italian: censura (it) f
• Japanese: 検閲 (ja) (けんえつ, ken'etsu)
• Kazakh: цензура (kk) (senzura)
• Korean: 검열(檢閱) (ko) (geomnyeol)
• Kyrgyz: цензура (ky) (tsenzura)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} cēnsūra f, (of literature) ^{(please verify)} literarum censura
• Latvian: cenzūra f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: cenzūra f
• Macedonian: цензу́ра f (cenzúra)
• Malay: penapisan

  Jawi: ڤناڤيسن

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цензур (cenzur)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sensur m

• Pashto: سانسور (ps) m (sānsór)
• Persian: سانسور (fa) (sânsur)
• Polish: cenzura (pl) f
• Portuguese: censura (pt) f
• Romanian: cenzură (ro) f
• Russian: цензу́ра (ru) f (cenzúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: caisgireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цензу́ра f

  Roman: cenzúra (sh) f

• Slovak: cenzúra f
• Slovene: cenzura (sl) f
• Spanish: censura (es) f
• Swedish: censur (sv) c
• Tajik: сензура (tg) (senzura)
• Thai: การเซ็นเซอร์ (gaan-sen-sə̂ə)
• Turkish: sansür (tr), sıkıdenetim
• Turkmen: senzura
• Ukrainian: цензу́ра (uk) f (cenzúra)
• Uzbek: tsenzura, senzura (uz)
• Vietnamese: kiểm duyệt (vi)
• Yiddish: צענזור f (tsenzur)

Anagrams

• sensorchip, sphericons