Interregnum

//ɪntəˈɹɛɡnəm//

Synonyms for "interregnum" (42 found)

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Translations

48 translations across 23 languages.

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Ancient Greek

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  • μεσοβασιλεία noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Arabic

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  • فترة noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Bulgarian

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  • безвластие noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)
  • междуцарствие noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Catalan

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  • interregne noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 改朝换代 noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • 改朝换代 noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)

Czech

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  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Dutch

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  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Finnish

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  • epäjatkuvuus noun (break in continuity — see also gap, intermission)
  • hallituspula noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)
  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • interregnum noun (period of time between when a minister or pastor leaves a church and when a new one is installed)

French

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  • interrègne noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Georgian

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  • მეფეთაშორისი ხანა noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • უმეფობა noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • უმეფობის ხანა noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

German

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  • Interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • Pause noun (break in continuity — see also gap, intermission)
  • Unterbrechung noun (break in continuity — see also gap, intermission)

Greek

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  • μεσοβασιλεία noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • interegnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • interegnum noun (break in continuity — see also gap, intermission)
  • interegnum noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)

Italian

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  • interregno noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Latin

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  • interrēgnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Polish

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  • bezkrólewie noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • bezkrólewie noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)
  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • interregnum noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)

Portuguese

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  • interregno noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Russian

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  • междуца́рствие noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Scottish Gaelic

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  • eadar-riaghladh noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • eadar-rìoghachd noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Serbo-Croatian

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  • interrègnum noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)
  • interrègnum noun (break in continuity — see also gap, intermission)
  • interrègnum noun (period of time between the end of one political leader’s term and the start of the term of their successor; period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended)
  • međuvlašće noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

Spanish

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  • interregno noun (period of time between the end of one monarch’s reign and the accession of their successor)

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The Sasanian Interregnum of 628–632

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It was not till the kings had been shorn of power and the interregnum of sham democracy had set in, leaving no virile force in the state or the world to resist the money power, that the opportunity for a world-wide plutocratic despotism arrived.

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Is it not Pelham who wonders what becomes of servants when they are not wanted;—whether, like the tones of an instrument, they exist but when called for? About servants we will not decide; but that some such interregnum certainly occurs in female existence on rising from table, no one can doubt who ever noted the sound of the dining and the silence of the drawing-room.

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This was in that strange pause of the storm which is its most remarkable feature in the South—that singular interregnum of the winds, when, after giving repeated notice of their most terrific action, they seem almost to forget their purpose, and for a few moments appear to slumber in their inactivity.

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