shogunate

2 definitions found

shogunate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shogunate \Sho*gun"ate\ (sh[=o]*g[=oo]n"[asl]t), n.
     The office or dignity of a Shogun. [Written also
     Siogoonate.]
     [1913 Webster]

shogunate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  shogunate
      n 1: 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, shogunate, Stalinism,
           totalitarianism, tyranny]