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Webster 1913 Edition

Dictatorship

Dic-ta′tor-ship

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Noun.

The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dictatorship

DICTATORSHIP

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Noun.

1.

The office of a dictator; the term of a dictators office.

2.

Authority; imperiousness; dogmatism.

Definition 2024

dictatorship

dictatorship

English

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

dictatorship of the majority

Translations

a government led by a dictator

Arabic: دِكْتَاتُورِيَّة f ‎(diktātōriyya), دِيكْتَاتُورِيَّة f ‎(diktātōriyya)
Armenian: դիկտատուրա (hy) ‎(diktatura)
Asturian: dictadura f
Belarusian: дыктату́ра f ‎(dyktatúra)
Breton: diktatouriezh f
Bulgarian: диктату́ра (bg) f ‎(diktatúra)
Catalan: dictadura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獨裁 (zh), 独裁 (zh) ‎(dúcái), 專政 (zh), 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 f, Willkürherrschaft f
Greek: δικτατορία (el) f ‎(diktatoría)
Hebrew: דיקטטורה (he) f ‎(diqt'at'ura)
Hindi: तानाशाही (hi) f ‎(tānāśāhī)
Hungarian: diktatúra (hu)
Icelandic: einræði (is) m
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 ‎(öktemdik)
Korean: 독재 (ko) ‎(dokjae) (獨裁 (ko))
Macedonian: диктату́ра f ‎(diktatúra)
Norman: dictatuthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: diktatur (no) n

Nynorsk: diktatur n
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
Spanish: dictadura (es) f
Swahili: udikteta
Swedish: diktatur (sv) c
Thai: ระบอบเผด็จการ ‎(rá bòp pà dèt gaan)
Turkish: diktatörlük (tr)
Ukrainian: диктату́ра (uk) f ‎(dyktatúra)
Vietnamese: chế độ độc tài
Yiddish: דיקטאַטור f ‎(diktatur)

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