protectorate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Hyphenation: pro‧tec‧tor‧ate

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).

   Synonym: regency

Derived terms

• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
• Somali Coast Protectorate

Translations

government by a protector

• Arabic: الحِمَايَة f (al-ḥimāya)
• Bulgarian: регентство (bg) n (regentstvo)
• Catalan: protectorat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: protektorát
• Dutch: protectoraat (nl) n
• Esperanto: protektorato
• Finnish: protektoraatti (fi)
• French: protectorat (fr) m
• Georgian: დამოკიდებული ქვეყანა (damoḳidebuli kveq̇ana), დამოკიდებული სახელმწიფო (damoḳidebuli saxelmc̣ipo), სატელიტი ქვეყანა (saṭeliṭi kveq̇ana), სატელიტური სახელმწიფო (saṭeliṭuri saxelmc̣ipo)
• German: Protektorat (de) n, Schutzgebiet (de) n
• Italian: protettorato (it) m
• Japanese: 保護者による政府
• Khmer: អាណាព្យាបាល (km) (aa naa pyiebaal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: protektorat n

  Nynorsk: protektorat n

• Portuguese: protetorado m
• Russian: протектора́т (ru) m (protɛktorát)
• Spanish: protectorado (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: protektorat (sv) n
• Ukrainian: протектора́т m (protektorát)

a protected autonomous state

• Bulgarian: протекторат (bg) m (protektorat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保護國 / 保护国 (zh) (bǎohùguó)

• Danish: protektorat (da) n
• Dutch: protectoraat (nl) n
• Finnish: protektoraatti (fi), suojelualue
• French: protectorat (fr) m
• German: Protektorat (de) n, Schutzgebiet (de) n
• Indonesian: protektorat (id), negara lindungan
• Italian: protettorato (it) m
• Japanese: 保護国 (ja) (hogokoku)
• Malay: negeri naungan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: protektorat n

  Nynorsk: protektorat n

• Polish: protektorat (pl) m
• Portuguese: protetorado m
• Russian: протектора́т (ru) m (protɛktorát)
• Spanish: protectorado (es) m
• Swahili: nchi lindwa
• Swedish: protektorat (sv) n
• Ukrainian: протектора́т m (protektorát)

References

• “protectorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.