Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The principle or practice of self-government in the internal affairs of a dependent country or other political unit.
Wiktionary
- n. The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country. Also used adjectively; as,
home-rule members of Parliament.
WordNet 3.0
- n. self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
Examples
“No, they could not hope for home rule in the old country, nor, if Catholic in Scotland or Wales, for much sympathy from the Protestant indigenes.”
“They and their middle-class fellow countrymen grew to political importance when they reverted to the idea of moral force only, advanced by Isaac Butt in his home rule scheme of 1870 — an idea broadly, but less pacifically, followed by Parnell.”
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