self-government

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: self-gov=ern=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-government, n. 

•  The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-government, n.
1 (esp. of a former colony etc.) government by its own people.
2 = SELF-CONTROL.

Derivative

self-governed adj. self-governing adj.

THESAURUS

self-government

Declaration of Independence, absolute monarchy, aplomb, aristocracy, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, automatic control, automation, automatism, automatization, autonomy, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, composure, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, constraint, control, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

self-government

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.