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dictatures

dictatures is the plural of dictature.

Meaning of dictature

Noun

dictature (plural dictatures)

  1. (obsolete) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
    • The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military...1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, “Civics: as Applied Sociology”, in B-The Historic Survey Of Cities, Sociological Society, page 109

Questions about dictatures

What is dictatures the plural of?
Dictatures is the plural of dictature.

Words near dictatures in the dictionary

  1. dictatress
  2. dictatresses
  3. dictatrices
  4. dictatrix
  5. dictature
  6. dictatures
  7. dictier
  8. dicties
  9. dictiest
  10. diction
  11. dictional

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