self-rule

Noun

Meaning

government of a political unit by its own people

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

self rule

Synonyms

self-determination self-government liberty ability freedom independence separation democracy autonomy sovereignty sovereign bent nationality abandonment individualism
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Antonyms

communism autocracy absolutism despotism caesarism colonialism
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Hypernyms

liberty autonomy

Hyponyms

sovereignty home rule local option

Examples

Never in the history of the world has an alien ruler granted self-rule to a people on a silver platter. Kwame Nkrumah

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule. Salvador Allende

Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, has refused to engage politically with the Trump administration. Source: Internet

After Sunday’s self-rule announcement, they are unlikely to get it. Source: Internet

A hard-won lesson of Western history is that genuine democratic self-rule begins at the hearth of the monogamous family." Source: Internet

A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-righting self-rising self-rising flour self-ruling self-sabotaging behavior self-sabotaging thinking