subjugation

English

Etymology

From New Latin subiugātiō, from Latin subiugō (“to subjugate”). By surface analysis, subjugate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbd͡ʒʊˈɡeɪʃən/　

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: sub‧ju‧ga‧tion

Noun

subjugation (countable and uncountable, plural subjugations)

1. The act of subjugating.
2. The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
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     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

Synonyms

• conquest

Related terms

• subjugate

Translations

act of subjugating

• Bulgarian: подчиняване (bg) n (podčinjavane), поробване (bg) n (porobvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 征服 (zh) (zhēngfú), 制服 (zh) (zhìfú), 制伏 (zh) (zhìfú)

• Czech: podrobení n
• Finnish: alistaminen (fi), kukistaminen (fi)
• French: assujettissement (fr)
• Galician: asoballamento (gl) m
• German: Unterwerfung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: καταστροφή f (katastrophḗ)

• Hungarian: meghódítás (hu), leigázás (hu)
• Italian: soggiogamento (it)
• Japanese: 征服 (ja) (seifuku)
• Maori: whakataurekarekatanga, pēhinga, tāmitanga
• Romanian: subjugare (ro)

state of being subjugated

• Bulgarian: подчинение (bg) n (podčinenie)
• Czech: poroba (cs) f
• Finnish: vallanalaisuus
• Galician: asoballamento (gl) m
• Romanian: subjugare (ro) f

Further reading

• “subjugation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “subjugation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syb.ʒy.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

subjugation f (plural subjugations)

1. subjugation

Further reading

• “subjugation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.