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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1651 government by a single person • monocrat noun • monocratic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) government by one person only. Derivatives: monocratic adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monocracy Mo*noc"ra*cy, n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by a single person; undivided rule. --Sydney Smith.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Autocracy, monarchy.