"abdication" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ [US] Audio: en-us-abdication.ogg Forms: abdications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdicātiō (“renunciation”), from abdicō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*deyḱ-}}, {{der|en|frm|abdication}} Middle French abdication, {{der|en|la|abdicātiō||renunciation}} Latin abdicātiō (“renunciation”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)
  1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-abdication-en-noun-ZJ4TrJfH
  2. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder): abdicación [feminine] (Asturian), абдика́ция (abdikácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), abdicació [feminine] (Catalan), 退位 (tuìwèi) (Chinese Mandarin), abdikace [feminine] (Czech), abdikation (Danish), abdicering (Danish), abdicatie (Dutch), (troons)afstand (Dutch), སྐུ་དབང་བློས་བཏང (sku dbang blos btang) (Dzongkha), abdikaatio (Finnish), abdication [feminine] (French), abdicación [feminine] (Galician), Abdankung [feminine] (German), παραίτηση (paraítisi) (Greek), turun takhta (Indonesian), abdikasi (Indonesian), abdication (Interlingua), tabhairt suas [feminine] (Irish), abdicazione [feminine] (Italian), 退位 (taii) (Japanese), abdicātiō [feminine] (Latin), turun takhta (Malay), abdikasi (Malay), ابديکاسي [Jawi] (Malay), abdikasi [Rumi] (Malay), whakatakanga (Maori), abdikasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), frasigelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tronfrasigelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), abdikasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fråseiing [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), abdicacion [feminine] (Occitan), abdykacja [feminine] (Polish), abdicação [feminine] (Portuguese), abdicare [feminine] (Romanian), отрече́ние (otrečénije) [neuter] (Russian), абдика́ция (abdikácija) [feminine] (Russian), абдика́ција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), abdikácija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), abdicación [feminine] (Spanish), abdikation (Swedish), avgång (Swedish), tronavsägelse [common-gender] (Swedish), odaonka (Vilamovian)
    Sense id: en-abdication-en-noun-en:renunciation Disambiguation of 'the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder': 5 83 3 8 1
  3. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-abdication-en-noun-RoEaDZcF
  4. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
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  5. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-abdication-en-noun-dcbrgeyZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: abdicational, nonabdication

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder",
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          "word": "abdykacja"
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          "sense": "the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder",
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          "word": "abdicação"
        },
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          "sense": "the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder",
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          "word": "abdicare"
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          "roman": "otrečénije",
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tronavsägelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "wym",
      "lang": "Vilamovian",
      "sense": "the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder",
      "word": "odaonka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "abdication"
}

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