shogunate

Other forms of shogunate

plural

shogunates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shogunate

What does shogunate mean?

shogunate means "a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)".

How many syllables are in shogunate?

shogunate has 3 syllables and divides as sho-gu-nate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for shogunate?

Close synonyms include dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shogunate a common word?

shogunate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.