absolute monarchy

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Noun

absolute monarchy (countable and uncountable, plural absolute monarchies)

1. A state over which a sole monarch has absolute and unlimited power.

   The Sultan of Brunei effectively subverted a constitutional monarchy into an absolute monarchy by implementing a perpetual state of emergency.

2. (uncountable) The rule of such a monarch, as a form of government.

Hypernyms

• absolutism, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship
• monarchy

Coordinate terms

• constitutional monarchy
• parliamentary monarchy

Translations

state

• Armenian: բացարձակ միապետություն (hy) (bacʻarjak miapetutʻyun)
• Danish: enevældigt monarki n
• Dutch: absolute monarchie m
• Finnish: itsevaltainen monarkia
• Galician: monarquía absoluta f
• Georgian: აბსოლუტური მონარქია (absoluṭuri monarkia)
• Hungarian: abszolút monarchia (hu)
• Icelandic: einveldi (is) n
• Indonesian: kerajaan absolut (id), kerajaan absolut (id)
• Irish: monarcacht absalóideach f
• Portuguese: monarquia absoluta (pt) f
• Romanian: monarhie absolută (ro) f

rule

• Arabic: مَلَكِيَّة مُطْلَقَة f (malakiyya muṭlaqa)
• Armenian: բացարձակ միապետություն (hy) (bacʻarjak miapetutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: mütləq monarxiya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 君主專制 / 君主专制 (jūnzhǔ zhuānzhì), 絕對君主制 / 绝对君主制 (juéduì jūnzhǔzhì)

• Danish: enevælde n
• Dutch: absolute monarchie m
• Finnish: itsevaltius (fi)
• French: monarchie absolue (fr) f
• Galician: monarquía absoluta f
• Georgian: აბსოლუტური მონარქია (absoluṭuri monarkia)
• German: absolute Monarchie f
• Hungarian: abszolút monarchia (hu)
• Indonesian: kerajaan absolut (id)
• Irish: monarcacht absalóideach f
• Japanese: 絶対君主制 (ぜったいくんしゅせい, zettai kunshusei)
• Korean: 전제군주제(專制君主制) (jeonjegunjuje)
• Malay: raja mutlak (ms)
• Polish: monarchia absolutna f
• Portuguese: monarquia absoluta (pt) f
• Romanian: monarhie absolută (ro) f
• Russian: абсолю́тная мона́рхия (ru) f (absoljútnaja monárxija)
• Spanish: monarquía absoluta f
• Thai: สมบูรณาญาสิทธิราชย์ (th) (sǒm-buu-rá-naa-yaa-sìt-tí-râat)

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