Shogunate

Noun Shogunate has 1 sense

• shogunate(n = noun.group) absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.); Array
is a kind of autarchy, autocracy
has particulars: police state