"ukase" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /juːˈkeɪz/, /ˈjuːkeɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ukase.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ukases [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪz Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|ука́з||edict, decree}} Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ukase (plural ukases)
  1. An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler. Categories (topical): Directives Translations (proclamation from the Russian ruler): ucàs [masculine] (Catalan), oekaze (Dutch), ukazo (Esperanto), ukaasi (Finnish), oukase (French), ukase (French), Ukas [masculine] (German), ukáz (Hungarian), ukase [masculine] (Italian), ukase [masculine] (Portuguese), ucase [masculine] (Portuguese), ука́з (ukáz) [masculine] (Russian), указ [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ukáz [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-ukase-en-noun-ignzRB06 Disambiguation of Directives: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'proclamation from the Russian ruler': 74 26
  2. (figuratively) Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Directives Synonyms: diktat Translations (any absolutist or arrogant order): ucàs [masculine] (Catalan), oekaze (Dutch), ukaasi (Finnish), oukase (French), ukase (French), Ukas [masculine] (German), ukáz (Hungarian), ukase [masculine] (Italian), dekret [masculine] (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-ukase-en-noun-~4vSVjTR Disambiguation of Directives: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of 'any absolutist or arrogant order': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (place): Russia Synonyms: ukaz, Ukaz, Ukase Related terms: decree, edict
Disambiguation of Russia: 0 0

Noun [French]

IPA: /y.kaz/, /u.kaz/ Audio: Fr-Paris--ukase.ogg [Paris] Forms: ukases [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|ru|ука́з||edict, decree|g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”), {{bor+|fr|ru|ука́з||edict, decree}} Borrowed from Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} ukase m (plural ukases)
  1. (historical) ukase (a decree from a Russian ruler, or any absolute or arrogant order) Tags: historical, masculine
    Sense id: en-ukase-fr-noun-dgAo8vzq
  2. edict, dictate Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-ukase-fr-noun-OXyu9agi Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (place): Russia Synonyms: oukase, oukaze, ukaze Related terms: décret [masculine], édit [masculine], loi, ordonnance
Disambiguation of Russia: 0 0

Noun [Italian]

Head templates: {{it-noun|m|#}} ukase m (invariable)
  1. ukase Tags: invariable, masculine Categories (place): Russia Synonyms: ucase
    Sense id: en-ukase-it-noun-z2UUsYXH Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Portuguese]

Forms: ukases [plural]
Head templates: {{pt-noun|m}} ukase m (plural ukases)
  1. ukase (proclamation by a Russian ruler) Tags: masculine Categories (place): Russia Synonyms: ucase
    Sense id: en-ukase-pt-noun-5X0PWmlT Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for ukase meaning in All languages combined (11.9kB)

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          "text": "I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?",
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          "ref": "1965, John Fowles, The Magus",
          "text": "I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 July, Stephen Burt, “Kick Over the Scenery”, in London Review of Books",
          "text": "It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈjuːkeɪs/"
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}

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