Usually means: Military dictatorship led by shogun.
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  1. shogunate: Merriam-Webster
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  3. shogunate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shogunate: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Shogunate, shogunate: Wordnik
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  9. shogunate: Dictionary.com
  10. Shogunate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. shogunate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Shogunate: Rhymezone
  14. Shogunate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. shogunate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shogunate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shogunate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shogunate)

▸ noun:  (historical, Japan) The office or dignity of a shogun.

Similar:
tyranny, dictatorship, monocracy, Caesarism, despotism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, Stalinism, absolutism, one-man rule, more...

Opposite:
emperor, monarchy, democracy

Types:
Tokugawa, more...

Phrases:
Tokugawa shogunate, Ashikaga shogunate, Kamakura shogunate, capital under the tokugawa shogunate, more...

Adjectives:
tokugawa, muromachi, new, japanese, last, feudal, powerful, later, former, dead, weak

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Similar:
tyranny, dictatorship, monocracy, Caesarism, despotism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, Stalinism, absolutism, one-man rule, more...

Opposite:
emperor, monarchy, democracy

Types:
Tokugawa, more...

Phrases:
Tokugawa shogunate, Ashikaga shogunate, Kamakura shogunate, capital under the tokugawa shogunate, more...

Adjectives:
tokugawa, muromachi, new, japanese, last, feudal, powerful, later, former, dead, weak



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