self-government

English

Etymology

self- +‎ government

Pronunciation

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Noun

self-government (uncountable)

1. The governance of a region by its own populace; autonomy.

   The radical party agitated for the region to secede from the confederation and establish self-government.

2. (dated) Personal self-control.

Synonyms

• self-governance
• (political): self-rule

Translations

governance of a region by its own populace

• Danish: selvstyre n
• Esperanto: memregado
• Finnish: itsehallinto (fi)
• Galician: goberno autónomo m
• Greek: αυτοκυβέρνηση (el) f (aftokyvérnisi)
• Irish: féinrialtas m, féinrialú m, féinriail f
• Lithuanian: savivalda (lt) f
• Norman: gouvèrnément dé sé m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvstyre n

• Polish: samorząd (pl) m
• Russian: самоуправление (ru) n (samoupravlenije)
• Spanish: autogobierno m
• Swedish: självstyre (sv) n, autonomi (sv) c
• Welsh: hunanlywodraeth (cy)