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"etymology_text": "From elector (“person eligible to vote in an election; German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”) + -ate (suffix denoting an office or rank; or something characterized by [the specified word]). Elector is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”).",
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"text": "The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.",
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},
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"ref": "2019 August 10, Gordon Brown, “The very idea of a United Kingdom is being torn apart by toxic nationalism”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-08",
"text": "Incoming governments normally announce that they will seek to serve the whole electorate. Now, playing out in triplicate across the UK is a \"divide and rule\" approach to leadership, straight from Donald Trump's playbook: each faction consolidating its base, choosing an enemy and accusing opponents of treason in the hope that in a multiparty system they can win with a minority of votes.",
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"word": "constituency"
}
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ēlektorat",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "էլեկտորատ"
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"roman": "əntrazangvac",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "ընտրազանգված"
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"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "hautesleria"
},
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "eljektarát",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "электара́т"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "вы́баршчыкі"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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],
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],
"word": "избира́тели"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"masculine"
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"word": "electorat"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "選民"
},
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xuǎnmín",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "选民"
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{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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],
"word": "elektorát"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "voličstvo"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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],
"word": "voliči"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "electoraat"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "kiezerspubliek"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "kiespubliek"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "voĉdonantaro"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "elektoraat"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "äänestäjäkunta"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "äänioikeutetut"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
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"word": "électorat"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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],
"word": "eletorât"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "electorado"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "amomrčevlebi",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "ამომრჩევლები"
},
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "elekṭoraṭi",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "ელექტორატი"
},
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wählerschaft"
},
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Wähler"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"Switzerland",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Stimmvolk"
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{
"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "eklogikó sóma",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "εκλογικό σώμα"
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{
"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elettorato"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"alt": "ゆうけんしゃ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yūkensha",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "有権者"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"alt": "有權者",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yugwonja",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"word": "유권자"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "elektorát",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"roman": "glasači",
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elektorat"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "eleitorado"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
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"word": "electorat"
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"roman": "elektorát",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"plural"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"plural"
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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],
"word": "elektorát"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "volivci"
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{
"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "väljare"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "väljarkår"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "valmannakår"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "valmanskår"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "elektorát",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"word": "електора́т"
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"_dis1": "74 9 18",
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"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
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"ref": "2016, Peter H[amish] Wilson, “Lands”, in Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, part II (Belonging), page 187",
"text": "[…] Brandenburg, emerging around what would become Berlin, acquired distinct status as an electorate in the mid-fourteenth century.",
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"(historical) The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship."
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"_dis1": "6 81 12",
"code": "bar",
"lang": "Bavarian",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"word": "kuafiaschtndum"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
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"word": "kurfyrstendømme"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "keurvorstendom"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 81 12",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"word": "elektoraatti"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 81 12",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Kurfürstentum"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "elektoráto",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ελεκτοράτο"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 81 12",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kjörfurstadæmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 81 12",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "elektorat"
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"_dis1": "6 81 12",
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"word": "електора́т"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "výborci",
"sense": "collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "ви́борці"
},
{
"code": "bar",
"lang": "Bavarian",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"word": "kuafiaschtndum"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kurfyrstendømme"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "keurvorstendom"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"word": "elektoraatti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Kurfürstentum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "elektoráto",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ελεκτοράτο"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kjörfurstadæmi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elektorat"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eleitorado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kurfurstendöme"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kurfjúrstvo",
"sense": "office, or area of dominion, of an Elector",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "курфю́рство"
}
],
"word": "electorate"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: politics",
"path": [
"electorate"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "electorate",
"trace": ""
}
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