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FORM OF GOVERNMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The members of a social organization who are in power
Synonyms:
form of government; political system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("form of government" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "form of government"):
political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)
party; political party (an organization to gain political power)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "form of government"):
autarchy; autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)
constitutionalism (a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution))
commonwealth; democracy; republic (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)
diarchy; dyarchy (a form of government having two joint rulers)
gerontocracy (a political system governed by old men)
gynarchy; gynecocracy (a political system governed by a woman)
hegemony (the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others)
mobocracy; ochlocracy (a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses)
oligarchy (a political system governed by a few people)
plutocracy (a political system governed by the wealthy people)
republic (a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch)
technocracy (a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control)
theocracy (a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided))
Holonyms ("form of government" is a member of...):
social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)
