imperialism

English

Etymology

imperial +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪz.m̩/

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Noun

imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)

1. The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
   • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:

     Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

Translations

the policy of extending power, by force

• Arabic: إِمْبِرْيَالِيَّة‎ f (ʾimbiryāliyya), اِسْتِعْمَارِيَّة‎ f (istiʿmāriyya)
• Armenian: իմպերիալիզմ (hy) (imperializm), կայսերապաշտություն (hy) (kayserapaštutʿyun)
• Catalan: imperialisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帝國主義 (zh), 帝国主义 (zh) (dìguózhǔyì)

• Czech: imperialismus (cs) m
• Dutch: imperialisme (nl) n
• Finnish: imperialismi (fi)
• French: impérialisme (fr) m
• Galician: imperialismo m
• Georgian: იმპერიალიზმი (imṗerializmi)
• German: Imperialismus (de) m
• Greek: αποικιοκρατισμός m (apoikiokratismós), αποικιοκρατία (el) f (apoikiokratía)
• Hungarian: imperializmus (hu)
• Icelandic: heimsvaldastefna f, imperíalismi m
• Indonesian: imperialisme (id)
• Irish: impiriúlachas m
• Italian: imperialismo (it) m
• Japanese: 帝国主義 (ja) (ていこくしゅぎ, teikokushugi)
• Kazakh: империализм (ïmperïalïzm)

• Khmer: ចក្រពត្តិនិយម (km) (chak krɑɑpoat niyum)
• Korean: 제국주의 (ko) (jegukjuui)
• Latin: imperialismus m
• Latvian: imperiālisms m
• Macedonian: империјали́зам m (imperijalízam)
• Norwegian: imperialisme m
• Old English: cāserdōm m
• Persian: امپریالیسم‎ (fa) (amperiyâlism)
• Portuguese: imperialismo (pt) m
• Romanian: imperialism (ro)
• Russian: империали́зм (ru) m (imperialízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: империјализам m

  Roman: imperijalizam (sh) m

• Spanish: imperialismo (es) m
• Swedish: imperialism (sv) c
• Tagalog: imperyalismo
• Thai: ลัทธิจักรวรรดินิยม (látthí-càkkrawáti-níyom)
• Turkish: emperyalizm (tr)

See also

• imperialist
• imperialistic

References

• imperialism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "imperialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 159.
• imperialism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French impérialisme.

Noun

imperialism n (uncountable)

1. imperialism

Declension

declension of imperialism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) imperialism	imperialismul
genitive/dative	(unui) imperialism	imperialismului
vocative	imperialismule

Related terms

• imperiu