censorship

English

Etymology

From censor +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsɚˌʃɪp/
• Hyphenation: cen‧sor‧ship

Noun

censorship (countable and uncountable, plural censorships)

1. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
   • 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1

     […] such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."

   • 2012, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Censorship Files, The: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

     The Infantes had contacts among left-wing groups that opposed the dictatorial regime in Spain and their visibility in these circles was a serious concern for the censorship authorities […]

2. (historical) The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.

Related terms

• bleep censor
• censor
• censorware
• media democracy
• moral panic
• bowdlerisation

Translations

use of state or group power to control freedom of expression

• Albanian: censurë (sq) f
• Arabic: رَقَّابَة f (raqqāba)
• Armenian: գրաքննություն (hy) (grakʻnnutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: senzura
• Belarusian: цэнзу́ра f (cenzúra)
• Bulgarian: цензу́ра (bg) f (cenzúra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 審查／审查 (zh) (shěnchá), 审查 (zh) (shěnchá), 檢查／检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá), 检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá)

• Czech: cenzura (cs) f
• Danish: censur c
• Dutch: censuur (nl) f
• Estonian: tsensuur
• Finnish: sensuuri (fi)
• French: censure (fr) f
• Georgian: ცენზურა (cenzura)
• German: Zensur (de) f
• Greek: λογοκρισία (el) (logokrisía)
• Hebrew: צֶנְזוּרָה
• Hindi: सेंसरशिप f (sẽsarśip), अभिवेचन m (abhivecan)
• Hungarian: cenzúra (hu)
• Italian: censura (it) f
• Japanese: 検閲 (けんえつ, ken'etsu)
• Kazakh: цензура (kk) (senzura)
• Korean: 검열 (ko) (geomnyeol)
• Kyrgyz: цензура (ky) (tsenzura)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} censura, (of literature) ^{(please verify)} literarum censura
• Latvian: cenzūra f
• Lithuanian: cenzūra f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: цензура f (cenzura)
• Malay: penapisan, ڤناڤيسن (penapisan)
• Mongolian: цензур (cenzur)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sensur

• Pashto: سانسور (ps) m (sānsór)
• Persian: سانسور (fa) (sânsur)
• Polish: cenzura (pl) f
• Portuguese: censura (pt) f
• Romanian: cenzură (ro) f
• Russian: цензу́ра (ru) f (cenzúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: caisgireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цензура f

  Roman: cenzura (sh) f

• Slovak: cenzúra f
• Slovene: cenzura (sl) f
• Spanish: censura (es) f
• Swedish: censur (sv) c
• Tajik: сензура (tg) (senzura)
• Thai: การตรวจพิจารณา (gaan-trùuat-pí-jaa-rá-naa)
• Turkish: sansür (tr), sıkıdenetim
• Turkmen: senzura
• Ukrainian: цензу́ра (uk) f (cenzúra)
• Uzbek: tsenzura, senzura (uz)
• Vietnamese: kiểm duyệt (vi)
• Yiddish: צענזור f (tsenzur)

Anagrams

• sensorchip, sphericons