What is "autonomous" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does autonomous mean in English? Meaning of autonomous definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "autonomous" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "autonomous": (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

Adjective

  • Meaning: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
  • Example: an autonomous judiciary a sovereign state
  • Synonyms: autonomous independent self-governing sovereign
  • Similar: free
  • Meaning of "autonomous": existing as an independent entity

    Adjective

  • Meaning: existing as an independent entity
  • Example: the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies
  • Synonyms: autonomous
  • Similar: independent
  • Meaning of "autonomous": (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
  • Synonyms: autonomous self-directed self-reliant
  • Similar: independent
  • Adjective: Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
  • Synonyms:

    self-governing, sovereign, free, uncontrolled, self-determining, self-ruling,

    Antonyms:

    subject, subservient, dependent,

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    autonomous in English: autonomous
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