protectorate

Meaning of protectorate

noun
  1. Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell.
  2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
    Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914.
  3. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.

Information about protectorate

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of protectorate is: protectorates.
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Hyphenation of protectorate

pro-tec-torate

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • protectorate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of protectorate

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