Thesaurus:government

Thesaurus

government

English

Noun

Sense: the administration of a society

Synonyms

• government

Antonyms

• anarchy
• chaos
• insurgency
• people (with 'the')
• rebellion
• shadow government
• uprising

Hyponyms

Governments by ruling office

• consulate
• governate
• eparchy
• presidency
• regency
• viceroyalty
• vizierate

Governments by number of absolute rulers

1

• monarchy
• autarchy
• autocracy
• bigmanism (Nigeria)
• monocracy (rare)

2

• diarchy
• biarchy
• duumvirate
• duopoly
• tandemocracy

3

• triarchy
• triumvirate
• troika (Russian)

4

• tetrarchy
• tetradarchy
• quattuorvirate
• quadrumvirate
• quartumvirate
• quatrumvirate (obs.)

5

• pentarchy
• quinquevirate

6

• hexarchy
• sevirate
• sexvirate
• sextumvirate

7

• heptarchy
• septemvirate

8

• octarchy
• octovirate

9

• novemvirate

10

• decarchy
• decadarchy
• decemvirate

11

• undecimvirate

12

• dodecarchy
• duodecimvirate
• duodecimate

15

• quindecemvirate

20

• vigintivirate

100

• hecatontarchy
• hecatarchy
• centumvirate

1000

• chiliarchy (obs.)

10,000

• myriarchy (obs.)

Many

• polyarchy

Governments by the nature of rulers

• aristocracy
• democracy
• despotism (pejorative or historical)
• dictatorship (pejorative or historical)
• feudalism
• kleptocracy
• meritocracy
• millionocracy (obs.)
• millocracy (hist.)
• oligarchy
• people's republic
• plutocracy
• republic
• theocracy
• tyranny (pejorative or historical)

Hypernyms

• administration    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• society

Metonyms

• authority
• power    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Category:en:Forms of government
• Template:rule by a number of people
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 737a. Government

Further reading

• “government” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.