The abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte occurred in 1814.
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Abdication
//ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "abdication" (25 found)
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Related words (12)
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47 translations across 34 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- abdicación noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Bulgarian
1 entries- абдика́ция noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Catalan
1 entries- abdicació noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 退位 noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Czech
1 entries- abdikace noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Danish
2 entries- abdicering noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- abdikation noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Dutch
2 entries- (troons)afstand noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- abdicatie noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Dzongkha
1 entries- སྐུ་དབང་བློས་བཏང noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Finnish
1 entries- abdikaatio noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
French
1 entries- abdication noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Galician
1 entries- abdicación noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
German
1 entries- Abdankung noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Greek
1 entries- παραίτηση noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Indonesian
2 entries- abdikasi noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- turun takhta noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Interlingua
1 entries- abdication noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Irish
1 entries- tabhairt suas noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Italian
1 entries- abdicazione noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Japanese
1 entries- 退位 noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Korean
1 entries- 퇴위 noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Latin
1 entries- abdicātiō noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Malay
4 entries- abdikasi noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- abdikasi noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- turun takhta noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- ابديکاسي noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Māori
1 entries- whakatakanga noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- abdikasjon noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- frasigelse noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- tronfrasigelse noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- abdikasjon noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- fråseiing noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Occitan
1 entries- abdicacion noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Polish
1 entries- abdykacja noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Portuguese
1 entries- abdicação noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Romanian
1 entries- abdicare noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Russian
2 entries- абдика́ция noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- отрече́ние noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- abdikácija noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- абдика́ција noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Spanish
1 entries- abdicación noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Swedish
3 entries- abdikation noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- avgång noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
- tronavsägelse noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thoái vị noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Vilamovian
1 entries- odaonka noun (the act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder)
Sample sentences
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Abdication is like retirement.
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The royal who wasn’t supposed to become queen at all, sat on the throne for 70 years following the death in 1952 of her father, George VI, who himself assumed the throne only because of the abdication by his brother, King Edward VIII in 1936.
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The monarch's abdication was a shock to the nation.
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