polity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
polity
n.
rule, regime, form of rule; government, administrative control
Polity
A
polity is a
state or one of its subordinate
civil authorities, such as a
province,
prefecture,
county,
municipality,
city, or
district. It is generally understood to mean a geographic area with a corresponding
government.
Thomas Hobbes considered bodies politic in this sense in
Leviathan. In previous centuries,
body politic was also understood to mean "the physical person of the sovereign:"
emperor,
king or
dictator in monarchies and despotisms, and the electorate in republics. In present times, it may also refer to representation of a group, such as ones drawn along ethnic or gender lines.
Cabinets in
liberal democracies are chosen to represent the body politic.
polity
Noun
1. the form of government of a social organization
(synonym) civil order
(hypernym) order
2. a politically organized unit
(hypernym) organization, organisation
(hyponym) government, authorities, regime
3. shrewd or crafty management of public affairs; "we was innocent of stratagems and polity"
(hypernym) administration, disposal
Polity
(n.)
The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
(n.)
Policy; art; management.
(n.)
Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
polity
Synonyms and related words:
Everyman, John Doe, Machtpolitik, Public, Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, administration, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, autarky, bimetallism, body politic, bossism, buffer state, captive nation, career politics, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circumspection, circumspectness, citizenry, city-state, civil government, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, community, community at large, confrontation politics, consensus politics, consideration, cool judgment, country, county, course, creed, direction, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, dispensation, disposition, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, economic self-sufficiency, economics in action, empery, empire, empirical politics, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, form of government, free city, free enterprise, free trade, general public, gentry, good judgment, governance, government, governmentalism, grand duchy, guiding principles, judgment, judiciousness, kid-glove politics, kingdom, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, land, line, localism, machine politics, managed currency, management, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, men, nation, nationality, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, oversight, partisan politics, partisanism, party line, party principle, peanut politics, people, people in general, persons, petty politics, plan of action, planned economy, platform, policy, polis, political organization, politics, populace, population, pork-barrel politics, position, position paper, possession, power, power politics, practical politics, pressure-group politics, price supports, principality, principate, principles, procedure, program, protection, protectionism, protectorate, providence, province, prudence, prudentialism, public, public policy, pump-priming, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, reflection, reflectiveness, reform politics, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, republic, rule, satellite, sectionalism, seneschalty, settlement, silk-stocking politics, society, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, sovereign nation, sovereignty, state, sultanate, superpower, supervision, sway, system of government, territory, thoughtfulness, toparchia, toparchy, ward politics, weighing, world, you and me
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
