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polity

/ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti//ˈpɑ.lə.ti/

polity noun: organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

Noun

polity (countable and uncountable, plural polities)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
    • Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
    • Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.1979, Jerome Ch’en, China and the West: Society and Culture, 1815–1937, page 270
  2. (countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
    • New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

polity meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

polity in Urdu

سیاسی گروہ

polity in Malayalam

രാഷ്ട്രീയമായി സംഘടിതമായ ഏകം, ഒരു രാജ്യം

polity in Kannada

ರಾಜ್ಯಾಡಳಿತ ಕ್ರಮ, ರಾಜ್ಯವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ಸಮಾಜ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ

Examples of polity in a sentence

  • It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, page 42:
  • Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world.2011, Jason A. Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition, →ISBN, page 9, note 26:

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Forms of polity

pluralpolities

Plural of polity: polities

Origin of polity

From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of police, policy, and polis (“police”).

Words formed from polity

Questions about polity

What does polity mean?
Polity means organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
What is polity in Urdu?
Polity in Urdu is سیاسی گروہ. See Polity meaning in Urdu.
How do you use polity in a sentence?
It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.
What part of speech is polity?
Polity is a noun.
How do you pronounce polity?
Polity is pronounced /ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/ (UK).
What is the plural of polity?
The plural of polity is polities.

Words near polity in the dictionary

  1. politruk
  2. politruks
  3. Politte
  4. Polittes
  5. politure
  6. polity
  7. Politzer bag
  8. Politzer bags
  9. politzerization
  10. politzerizations
  11. politzerize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polity (page history and authors); polity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); polity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); polity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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