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OCHLOCRACY

Definition: OCHLOCRACY

OCHLOCRACY

Noun

1. A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OCHLOCRACY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Etymology: Ochlocracy \Och*loc"ra*cy\, noun. [expression of Greek origin; the populace, multitude to be strong, to rule, strength: compare to French ochlocratie.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: OCHLOCRACY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Government

Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OCHLOCRACY

English words defined with "OCHLOCRACY": Ochlocratical. (references)

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Modern Translations: OCHLOCRACY

Language Translations for "OCHLOCRACY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ohlokrati. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حكومة الدهماء. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

управление на тълпата, охлократия. (various references)

   

French

  

gouvernement de populace. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csõcselékuralom. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

衆愚政治 (mob rule, mobocracy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅぐせいじ (mob rule, mobocracy), しゅうぐせいじ (mob rule, mobocracy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ochlocracyay

   

Portuguese

  

ocra (octagon). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

охлократия. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ohlokratija, vladavina ološa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ochlokracy. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

halk yönetimi (mobocracy), avam idaresi. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chính quyền quần chúng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OCHLOCRACY"

Words rhyming with "OCHLOCRACY" (pronounced 'Och*loc"ra*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OCHLOCRACY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-h-l-o-o-r-y"

-4 letters: archly, calory, caroch, choral, coccal, hooray.

-5 letters: achoo, carol, chary, cholo, clach, claro, clary, coach, coaly, cocoa, color, cooch, cooly, coral, cyclo, hoary, hooly, horal, larch, loach, ochry, orach, roach, royal, yahoo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OCHLOCRACY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 43 48 4C 4F 43 52 41 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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