noun
Meaning 1
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
edict
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈiː.dɪkt/
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rhymes with -ɪkt
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noun
Meaning 2
a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, enactment
Narrower terms: consent decree, curfew, decree nisi, imperial decree, legal separation, judicial separation, programma, prohibition, ban, proscription, stay, bull, papal bull
noun
Meaning 3
a formal or authoritative proclamation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration
History
Etymology
From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: eewuu — proclamation of law
- Arabic: مَرْسُوم (marsūm) — proclamation of law
- Armenian: պատգամ (patgam) — proclamation of law
- Bulgarian: декрет (dekret) — proclamation of law
- Bulgarian: указ (ukaz) — proclamation of law
- Catalan: edicte — proclamation of law
- Chinese Mandarin: 法令 (fǎlìng) — proclamation of law
- Czech: výnos — proclamation of law
- Czech: edikt — proclamation of law
- Dutch: edict — proclamation of law
- Faroese: fyriskipan — proclamation of law
- Faroese: kunngerð — proclamation of law
- Finnish: julistus — proclamation of law
- Finnish: edikti — proclamation of law
- French: édit — proclamation of law
- Galician: edicto — proclamation of law
- Galician: bando — proclamation of law
- German: Edikt — proclamation of law
- Greek: διάταγμα (diátagma) — proclamation of law
- Greek: χρυσόβουλο (chrysóvoulo) — proclamation of law
- Ancient Greek: δόγμα (dógma) — proclamation of law
- Hebrew: הוראה (horaá) — proclamation of law
- Hebrew: צו (tsav) — proclamation of law
- Hungarian: ediktum — proclamation of law
- Indonesian: maklumat — proclamation of law
- Italian: editto — proclamation of law
- Japanese: 勅令 (chokurei) — proclamation of law
- Central Kurdish: فەرمان (ferman) — proclamation of law
- Latin: ēdictum — proclamation of law
- Macedonian: у́каз (úkaz) — proclamation of law
- Macedonian: декре́т (dekrét) — proclamation of law
- Macedonian: ферман (ferman) — proclamation of law
- Polish: edykt — proclamation of law
- Polish: dekret — proclamation of law
- Portuguese: edito — proclamation of law
- Portuguese: édito — proclamation of law
- Romanian: edict — proclamation of law
- Russian: ука́з (ukáz) — proclamation of law
- Russian: эдикт (edikt) — proclamation of law
- Slovak: edikt — proclamation of law
- Slovak: dekrét — proclamation of law
- Spanish: edicto — proclamation of law
- Swedish: edikt — proclamation of law
- Swedish: kungörelse — proclamation of law
- Swedish: påbud — proclamation of law
- Thai: ประกาศ (bprà-gàat) — proclamation of law
- Ottoman Turkish: امر (emr, emir) — proclamation of law
- Volapük: dalebüd — proclamation of law
- Yiddish: גזירה (gezeyre) — proclamation of law