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English
Etymology
From dictator + -ship.
Pronunciation
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.
There were no elections during Franco's dictatorship.
- Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
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Translations
a government led by a dictator
- Afrikaans: diktatuur, diktatorskap
- 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 (ja) (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 (darungɣuyilal)
- Norman: dictatuthe f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: diktatur (no) n
- Nynorsk: diktatur n
- Occitan: dictadura f
- Pashto: ديکتاتوري f (diktātori), ډيکټاټوري f (ḍekṭāṭori)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: دیکْتاتوری (diktâtori)
- 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)
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