Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shogunate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shogunate \Sho*gun"ate\, n.
The office or dignity of a Shogun. [Written also
{Siogoonate}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shogunate
n : a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute
dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or
opposition etc.) [syn: {dictatorship}, {absolutism}, {authoritarianism},
{Caesarism}, {despotism}, {monocracy}, {one-man rule}, {Stalinism},
{totalitarianism}, {tyranny}]
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