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: sho-gu-nate. The stress falls on "sho".

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.