Associations to the word «Autocracy»

Wiktionary

AUTOCRACY, noun. A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

Dictionary definition

AUTOCRACY, noun. A political system governed by a single individual.
AUTOCRACY, noun. A political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne