Definition of "dictate" in Englisch

noun

1. An order or command.

   • I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

verb

1. To order, command, control.

2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

   • She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
   • The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

3. To determine or decisively affect.