English
Etymology
dictator + -ship
Pronunciation
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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 / 独裁 (zh) ( dúcái ) , 独裁 (zh) ( dúcái ) , 專政 / 专政 (zh) ( zhuānzhèng ) , 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 ) , 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 )
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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
Occitan: dictadura f
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