The meaning of Autocracy

Autocracy – definition

noun
A system of government by one person with absolute power.
Usage examples:
It is generally customary to consider the doctrine largely in connection with those states which ha…
Synonims:
Absolutism Absolute power Totalitarianism Dictatorship Despotism Tyranny Monocracy Autarchy Dystopia

noun
Government by a single person or small group that has unlimited power or authority, or a country or society that has this form of government
Usage examples:
An autocratic regime

Autocracy translation into English

Autocracy: translate from English into Chinese

专制, 独裁, 暴政, 独裁政治, 独裁政府, 独裁者之职, 独裁权, 独裁国家

Autocracy: translate from English into Dutch

Autocratie, Alleenheerschappij

Autocracy: translate from English into French

Autocratie

Autocracy: translate from English into German

Autokratie, Willkürlichkeit

Autocracy: translate from English into Hindi

एकतंत्र, निरंकुशता, निरंकुश राज्यशासन

Autocracy: translate from English into Italian

Autocrazia

Autocracy: translate from English into Korean

독재, 독재주의 국가, 독재권, 전제정치

Autocracy: translate from English into Russian

Самодержавие, Автократия

Autocracy: translate from English into Spanish

Autocracia

Word origin

mid 17th century (in the sense ‘autonomy’): from Greek autokrateia, from autokratēs (see autocrat).

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Autocracy – similar words

autocracies

noun
A system of government by one person with absolute power.
Usage examples:
It is generally customary to consider the doctrine largely in connection with those states which ha…

noun
Government by a single person or small group that has unlimited power or authority, or a country or society that has this form of government
Usage examples:
An autocratic regime

All meanings and translations of Autocracies

Autocracy synonims

absolutism

noun
The holding of absolute principles in political, philosophical, or theological matters.
Usage examples:
Thus papal absolutism and spanish absolutism, secular and ecclesiastical power, grew ever more comp…

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autarchy

noun
Another term for autocracy.

noun
Economic independence or self-sufficiency.
Usage examples:
Rural community autarchy is a utopian dream

noun
→ autocracy

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despotism

noun
The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
Usage examples:
The ideology of enlightened despotism

noun
The rule of a despot (= a ruler with unlimited power, often one who is unfair and cruel)
Usage examples:
After years of despotism, the country is now moving towards democracy., during his reign, he earned…

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dictatorship

noun
Government by a dictator.
Usage examples:
The effects of forty years of dictatorship

noun
A country ruled by a dictator, or the condition of being so ruled
Usage examples:
[ u ] a flood of refugees fled the brutal dictatorship then existing in that country.

All meanings and translations of Dictatorship

dystopia

noun
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
Usage examples:
Environmental disaster is the backdrop to this modern dystopia

noun
A very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society
Usage examples:
The film is set in 2700 on an uninhabitable earth, a dystopia covered in towers of garbage., most o…

All meanings and translations of Dystopia

monocracy

noun
A system of government by one person only.
Usage examples:
The monocracy located on georgia's black sea coast remains in open confrontation with the georgian …

All meanings and translations of Monocracy

totalitarianism

noun
A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Usage examples:
Democratic countries were fighting against totalitarianism

noun
The belief that a government should have total power over its citizens

All meanings and translations of Totalitarianism

tyranny

noun
Cruel and oppressive government or rule.
Usage examples:
Refugees fleeing tyranny and oppression

noun
Unlimited authority or use of power, or a government which exercises such power without any control or limits
Usage examples:
American revolutionaries believed the british government was tyrannical., in school, he was the big…

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