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protectorate

Syllables: pro·tec·tor·ate/pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/

protectorate noun: government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.

Noun

protectorate (plural protectorates)

  1. (UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
  2. (UK, historical) The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
  3. The authority assumed by a state over another state deemed inferior or dependent, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
    • Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914.
  4. An autonomous state under protectorate.
  5. The office or position of protector (sense 5).
    Synonyms:
    regency

Proper noun capitalized: Protectorate

the Protectorate

  1. (historical) The British state from 1653 to 1659, under Oliver Cromwell and then Richard Cromwell.
    • Holonym: Interregnum
    Synonyms:
    Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, Commonwealth

protectorate meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

protectorate in Tamil

காப்பரசு, காப்புநாடு

protectorate in Malayalam

രാജ്യപരിപാലനം, അധിരാജത്വം, സംരക്ഷക ഭരണം

protectorate in Kannada

ಪಾಲಿತ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಆಶ್ರಿತ ರಾಜ್ಯ

protectorate in Arabic

government by a protector
الحِمَايَة al-ḥimāya
More languagesFewer languages
protectorate in Malay
negeri naungan
protectorate in Indonesian
protektorat, negara lindungan

Synonyms of protectorate

Forms of protectorate

pluralprotectorates

Plural of protectorate: protectorates

Origin of protectorate

From protector + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office).

Proprialization from protectorate.

Words formed from protectorate

Questions about protectorate

What does protectorate mean?
Protectorate means government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
What is protectorate in Tamil?
Protectorate in Tamil is காப்பரசு, காப்புநாடு. See Protectorate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is protectorate?
Protectorate can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce protectorate?
Protectorate is pronounced /pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/.
What is the plural of protectorate?
The plural of protectorate is protectorates.

Words near protectorate in the dictionary

  1. Protectographs
  2. protectope
  3. protectopes
  4. protector
  5. protectoral
  6. protectorate
  7. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  8. protectorates
  9. protectoress
  10. protectorial
  11. protectorian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protectorate (page history and authors); Protectorate (page history and authors); protectorate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); protectorate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); protectorate (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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