Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

democratatorship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: democrata-tor-ship
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.

Informal

Example Sentences

"Aleph admits that Israel is trying to develop genuinely democratic institutions but, because of her compromises with ethnic religion, the new state can be described at best as a "democratura," or "democratatorship"!"
"Yet such men regarded parliamentary democracy as a sham 'democratatorship' (Demokratur), believed the multi-party system had to be abolished and wanted somehow to reunify the country with the assistance of like-minded fascists abroad."

Etymology

Blend of democracy + dictatorship.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

democratatorships (plural)

Questions

What does democratatorship mean?: A dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.
Where does democratatorship come from?: Blend of democracy + dictatorship.

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