In 508BC, the ruler of Athens, Cleisthenes established ostracism to prevent the appearance of a tyrant.
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Ostracism
Synonyms for "ostracism" (85 found)
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51 translations across 21 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- ostracismu noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracismu noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Bulgarian
1 entries- отлъчване noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Catalan
2 entries- ostracisme noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracisme noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 放逐 noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- 陶片放逐制 noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
Danish
3 entries- ostrakisme noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- udelukkelse noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- udstødelse noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Dutch
4 entries- banning noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- ostracisme noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracisme noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- schervengericht noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
Esperanto
1 entries- ostracismo noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
Finnish
4 entries- eristäminen noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- hyljeksiminen noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- ostrakismi noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostrakismos noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
French
2 entries- ostracisme noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracisme noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Galician
2 entries- ostracismo noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracismo noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
German
3 entries- Ausgrenzung noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- Scherbengericht noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- Ächtung noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Icelandic
1 entries- útskúfun noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Italian
2 entries- ostracismo noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracismo noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Japanese
2 entries- 村八分 noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- 陶片追放 noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
Polish
2 entries- ostracyzm noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracyzm noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Portuguese
2 entries- ostracismo noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracismo noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Romanian
1 entries- ostracism noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Russian
3 entries- изгна́ние noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- остраки́зм noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- остраки́зм noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Spanish
2 entries- ostracismo noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- ostracismo noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Swedish
3 entries- ostracism noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- uteslutning noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- utfrysning noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вигнання noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
- остракізм noun (in ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote)
- остракізм noun (banishment, exclusion from community)
Sample sentences
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Cancel culture is a modern form of ostracism.
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Ostracism was a punishment in ancient Athens.
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Soviet functionaries who didn't toe the party line were at risk of ostracism and imprisonment.
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