Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dictatorship"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dictatorship \Dic*ta"tor*ship\, n.
The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence,
absolute power.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dictatorship
n : a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute
dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or
opposition etc.) [syn: {absolutism}, {authoritarianism},
{Caesarism}, {despotism}, {monocracy}, {one-man rule}, {shogunate},
{Stalinism}, {totalitarianism}, {tyranny}]
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