"self-government" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-self-government.wav
Etymology: From self- + government. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|government}} self- + government Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} self-government (uncountable)
  1. The governance of a region by its own populace; autonomy. Tags: uncountable Translations (governance of a region by its own populace): selvstyre [neuter] (Danish), memregado (Esperanto), itsehallinto (Finnish), goberno autónomo [masculine] (Galician), αυτοκυβέρνηση (aftokyvérnisi) [feminine] (Greek), féinrialtas [masculine] (Irish), féinrialú [masculine] (Irish), féinriail [feminine] (Irish), savivalda [feminine] (Lithuanian), gouvèrnément dé sé [masculine] (Norman), selvstyre [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), samorząd [masculine] (Polish), governo autônomo [masculine] (Portuguese), самоуправление (samoupravlenije) [neuter] (Russian), autogobierno [masculine] (Spanish), självstyre [neuter] (Swedish), autonomi [common-gender] (Swedish), hunanlywodraeth (Welsh)
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  2. (dated) Personal self-control. Tags: dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-self-government-en-noun-zq-DTxTx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with self-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with self-: 14 86 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: self-governance Synonyms (political): self-rule
Disambiguation of 'political': 0 0
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.