Governement

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The group of people who run a state and make its laws ; the system or process by which a country or organization is ruled ; in grammar, the way one word requires another to take a particular case or form
2. The ruling body that administers a nation or state ; the manner or act of directing and controlling a country or organization ; a grammatical relationship in which one word determines the case or form of another
3. A nation's executive and legislative leadership ; the exercise of authority over a people or institution ; the grammatical rule by which a word dictates the case or inflection of a related word

Etymology: "Government" carries a ship's helm inside it. It comes from Latin "gubernare," meaning to steer or pilot a vessel, which was borrowed from Greek "kybernan," the root behind "cybernetics." Calling the act of ruling a kind of steering was a metaphor from the start. The spelling in your request, "governement," with an extra "e," is a common slip, but it echoes the Old French form "governement," which English writers used for a time before the shorter spelling became standard. The ending "-ment" comes from Latin "-mentum," which marks the result or means of an action. So the word names both the act of governing and the body that carries it out.