"polity" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Czech]

IPA: [ˈpolɪtɪ]
Head templates: {{head|cs|participle form}} polity
  1. inflection of polít: Tags: form-of, inanimate, masculine, participle, passive, plural Form of: polít
    Sense id: en-polity-cs-verb-DSenBFIS Categories (other): Czech entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Czech entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
  2. inflection of polít: Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, passive, plural Form of: polít
    Sense id: en-polity-cs-verb-WIVxzI87 Categories (other): Czech entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Czech entries with incorrect language header: 48 52

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/ [UK], /ˈpɑ.lə.ti/ [Canada, US], [ˈpɑ.lə.ɾi] [Canada, US], /ˈpɔl.ə.ti/ [General-Australian], [ˈpɔl.ə.ɾi] [General-Australian] Audio: UK Audio 'Polity'.ogg [UK], en-us-polity.ogg [US] Forms: polities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of policy and police. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|politie}} Middle French politie, {{der|en|la|polītīa}} Latin polītīa, {{der|en|grc|πολιτεία||polity, policy, the state}} Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”), {{doublet|en|policy|police}} Doublet of policy and police Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} polity (countable and uncountable, plural polities)
  1. (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Politics, Religion Translations (organizational structure and governance): държавно устройство (dǎržavno ustrojstvo) (Bulgarian), 政體 (Chinese Mandarin), 政体 (zhèngtǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), (politické) zřízení [neuter] (Czech), bestuursvorm (Dutch), staatsbestel (Dutch), leden van een gemeenschap (Dutch), hallinto (Finnish), hallintokoneisto (Finnish), Gemeinwesen [neuter] (German), πολίτευμα (polítevma) [neuter] (Greek), intézményrendszer (Hungarian), államigazgatás (Hungarian), közigazgatás (Hungarian), 政体 (seitai) (alt: せいたい) (Japanese), regime [masculine] (Portuguese), строй (stroj) [masculine] (Russian), устро́йство (ustrójstvo) [neuter] (Russian), режи́м (režím) [masculine] (Russian), фо́рма правле́ния (fórma pravlénija) [feminine] (Russian), régimen [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-polity-en-noun-t7CI8kN2 Topics: government, lifestyle, politics, religion Disambiguation of 'organizational structure and governance': 98 2
  2. (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a state. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Political science Categories (place): Polities Translations (politically organized unit): uskupení [neuter] (Czech), staatsvorm (Dutch), staatsbestel (Dutch), hallintoalue (Finnish), államalakulat (Hungarian), politikai entitás/közösség (Hungarian), állam (Hungarian), estado [masculine] (Portuguese), estado [masculine] (Spanish), statsbildning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-polity-en-noun-tzZ2lLhF Disambiguation of Polities: 25 75 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 74 Topics: political-science, social-sciences Disambiguation of 'politically organized unit': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: divine polity Related terms: police, policy, politic, political, politician, politicize, politics

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Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2011, Jason A. Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition, page 9, note 26",
          "text": "Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world. For example in the seventeenth century Tibetan Buddhists successfully established a theocracy under the guidance of monks […]",
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    {
      "word": "divine polity"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "polītīa"
      },
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "4": "",
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      },
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    }
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "word": "police"
    },
    {
      "word": "policy"
    },
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      "word": "politic"
    },
    {
      "word": "political"
    },
    {
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      "word": "politicize"
    },
    {
      "word": "politics"
    }
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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        "en:Religion"
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        {
          "text": "Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Jerome Ch’en, China and the West: Society and Culture, 1815–1937, page 270",
          "text": "Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, page 42",
          "text": "The utopian community at Ephrata flourished for forty years, and the last celibates at Ephrata died after the turn of the century. It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jason A. Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition, page 9, note 26",
          "text": "Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world. For example in the seventeenth century Tibetan Buddhists successfully established a theocracy under the guidance of monks […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion."
      ],
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          "politics",
          "politics"
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        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
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          "Organizational",
          "organizational"
        ],
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ],
        [
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          "governance"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
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        "(politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion."
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        "usually"
      ],
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        "lifestyle",
        "politics",
        "religion"
      ]
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Political science"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A politically organized unit, especially a state."
      ],
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        [
          "political science",
          "political science"
        ],
        [
          "politically",
          "politically"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a state."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ],
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        "political-science",
        "social-sciences"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɑ.lə.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈpɑ.lə.ɾi]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɔl.ə.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɔl.ə.ɾi]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
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      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dǎržavno ustrojstvo",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "държавно устройство"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "政體"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhèngtǐ",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "政体"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "(politické) zřízení"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "bestuursvorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "staatsbestel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "leden van een gemeenschap"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "hallinto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "hallintokoneisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Gemeinwesen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "polítevma",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πολίτευμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "intézményrendszer"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "államigazgatás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "közigazgatás"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいたい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seitai",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "word": "政体"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regime"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stroj",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "строй"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ustrójstvo",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "устро́йство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "režím",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "режи́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fórma pravlénija",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фо́рма правле́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "organizational structure and governance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "régimen"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "uskupení"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "staatsvorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "staatsbestel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "hallintoalue"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "államalakulat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "politikai entitás/közösség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "word": "állam"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "politically organized unit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "statsbildning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "polity"
}

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