dictatorship

English

Etymology

dictator +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)ʃɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹʃɪp/

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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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 (mr) 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)

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