'Self-government' definitions:
Definition of 'self-government'
From: WordNet
noun
Government of a political unit by its own people [syn: self-government, self-determination, self-rule]
Definition of 'Self-government'
From: GCIDE
- Self-government \Self`-gov"ern*ment\, n.
- 1. The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also, the state of being so governed; democratic government; democracy. [1913 Webster]
- It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. --D. Webster. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'self-government'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarchy,
- aplomb,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autarky,
- autocracy,
- automatic control,
- automation,
- automatism,
- automatization,
- autonomy,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- composure,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- constraint,
- control,
- Declaration of Independence,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- discipline,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- freedom,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- independence,
- individualism,
- inner-direction,
- internationalism,
- internationality,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- nationalism,
- nationality,
- nationhood,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- peoplehood,
- police state,
- possession,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- restraint,
- rugged individualism,
- self-action,
- self-activity,
- self-command,
- self-conquest,
- self-containment,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-motion,
- self-possession,
- self-propulsion,
- self-regulation,
- self-reliance,
- self-restraint,
- self-sufficiency,
- social democracy,
- sovereign nationhood,
- sovereignty,
- statehood,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state,
- willpower