SELF-RULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-rule mean? 

• SELF-RULE (noun)
  The noun SELF-RULE has 1 sense:

1. government of a political unit by its own people

  Familiarity information: SELF-RULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-RULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Government of a political unit by its own people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

self-determination; self-government; self-rule

Hypernyms ("self-rule" is a kind of...):

autonomy; liberty (immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-rule"):

sovereignty (government free from external control)

local option (freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction)

home rule (self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government)