noun
Meaning
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
absolutismauthoritarianismCaesarismdespotismmonocracyone-man ruleshogunateStalinism
How to pronounce
dictatorship
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