dictatorship

English

Etymology

dictator +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)ʃɪp/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹʃɪp/

Noun

dictatorship (plural dictatorships)

1. A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
2. A government which exercises autocratic rule.

   There were no elections during Franco's dictatorship.

3. Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.

Synonyms

• absolutism
• autocracy
• despotism
• tyranny

 

Hyponyms

• absolute monarchy
• benevolent absolutism
• enlightened absolutism
• enlightened despotism

 

Derived terms

• antidictatorship
• dictatorship of democracy
• dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
• dictatorship of the majority
• dictatorship of the proletariat
• nondictatorship
• petro-dictatorship
• proletarian dictatorship
• tin-pot dictatorship

 

Related terms

• dictatorialism

 

Translations

a government led by a dictator

• Afrikaans: diktatuur
• Albanian: diktaturë (sq) f
• Arabic: دِكْتَاتُورِيَّة f (diktātōriyya), دِيكْتَاتُورِيَّة f (diktātōriyya)
• Armenian: բռնապետություն (hy) (bṙnapetutʻyun), դիկտատուրա (hy) (diktatura), բռնակալություն (hy) (bṙnakalutʻyun)
• Asturian: dictadura f
• Azerbaijani: diktatura, diktatorluq
• Belarusian: дыктату́ра f (dyktatúra)
• Breton: diktatouriezh f
• Bulgarian: диктату́ра (bg) f (diktatúra)
• Burmese: အာဏာရှင်စနစ် (my) (anahrangca.nac)
• Carpathian Rusyn: діктату́ра f (diktatúra)
• Catalan: dictadura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨裁／独裁 (zh) (dúcái), 專政／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, Cäsarenherrschaft f
• Greek: δικτατορία (el) f (diktatoría)
• Hebrew: דִּיקְטָטוּרָה (he) f (diktatúra)
• Hindi: तानाशाही (hi) f (tānāśāhī), अधिनायकतंत्र (hi) m (adhināyaktantra)
• 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 (öktemdık), диктатура (kk) (diktatura)
• Khmer: អំណាចផ្ដាច់ការ (ʼɑmnaac phdac kaa)
• Korean: 독재(獨裁) (ko) (dokjae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dîktatorî

• 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
• Manx: ardreillaght f
• Marathi: हुकूमशाही f (hukūmśāhī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дарангуйлал (mn) (darangujlal)

  Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠩᠭᠤᠶᠢᠯᠠᠯ (daruŋɣuyilal)

• Norman: dictatuthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diktatur (no) n

  Nynorsk: diktatur n

• Occitan: dictadura f
• Pashto: ديکتاتوري f (diktātori), ډيکټاټوري f (ḍekṭāṭori)
• Persian: دیکْتاتوری (fa) (diktâturi)
• Polish: dyktatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: ditadura (pt) f
• Romanian: dictatură (ro) f
• Russian: диктату́ра (ru) f (diktatúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: диктату́ра f

  Roman: diktatúra (sh) f

• Slovak: diktatúra f
• Slovene: diktatura (sl) f
• Spanish: dictadura (es) f
• Swahili: udikteta class u
• Swedish: diktatur (sv) c
• Tajik: диктатура (diktatura)
• Tamil: சர்வாதிகாரம் (ta) (carvātikāram)
• Tatar: диктатура (diktatura)
• Telugu: నియంతృత్వము (te) (niyantr̥tvamu)
• Thai: ระบอบเผด็จการ (rá-bɔ̀ɔp-pà-dèt-gaan)
• Tibetan: སྲིད་དབར་སྒེར་འཛིན (srid dbar sger 'dzin)
• Turkish: diktatörlük (tr)
• Turkmen: diktatura
• Ukrainian: диктату́ра (uk) f (dyktatúra)
• Urdu: آمِرِیَت (ur) f (āmiriyat), تانا شاہی f (tānā śāhī)
• Uyghur: دىكتاتۇرا (diktatura)
• Uzbek: diktatura (uz)
• Vietnamese: chế độ độc tài, nền chuyên chính
• Yiddish: דיקטאַטור f (diktatur)