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# dictatorship

noun

«dictatorship» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

51 uses in 29 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 51 of 51. By the class of the article: country 21, city 5, other 2, agglomeration 1. Most often with: «military», «country», «rule», «coup», «democracy».

### Examples

- During the interwar period, anti-parliamentarian sentiments culminated in the formation of an Austrofascist dictatorship under Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934. — [Austria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), sentence 13 («wiki:Austria:13»)
- The 1980s were dominated by the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who was overthrown in a mass uprising in 1990. — [Bangladesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), sentence 16 («wiki:Bangladesh:16»)
- Under Nazi dictatorship the synagogue of the Jewish Community in Münzgasse was desecrated and looted on Kristallnacht but, due to its proximity to the Opera House it was not razed. — [Bayreuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth), sentence 106 («wiki:Bayreuth:106»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Austria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bangladesh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bayreuth»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.