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Webster 1913 Edition

Autonomous

Au-ton′o-mous

,

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] self + [GREEK] to assign, hold, sway.]

1.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

2.

(Biol.)

Having independent existence or laws.

Webster 1828 Edition

Autonomous

AUTON'OMOUS

,

Adj.

[Infra.] Independent in government; having the right of self government.

Definition 2024

autonomous

autonomous

English

Adjective

autonomous

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

(governing independently): sovereign, self-governing
(acting on ones own behalf): selfstanding, self-directed

Antonyms

heteronomous

Derived terms

Related terms

autonomy

Translations

self-governing

Albanian: autonom (sq)
Bulgarian: автономен (bg) ‎(avtonomen), независим (bg) ‎(nezavisim)
Catalan: autònom
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自治 (zh) ‎(zìzhì)
Czech: samosprávný, autonomní
Dutch: autonoom (nl)
Esperanto: aŭtonoma
French: autonome (fr) m, f
German: autonom (de)
Greek: αυτόνομος (el) ‎(aftónomos)
Hindi: स्वायत्त (hi) ‎(svāyatt)
Hungarian: autonómia (hu)
Ido: autonoma (io)

Italian: autonomo (it) m, autonoma (it) f
Japanese: 自治 (ja) ‎(じち, jichi)
Korean: 자치 (ko) ‎(jachi)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: autonom (no), selvstyrt, sjølstyrt

Nynorsk: autonom, sjølvstyrt
Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil)
Romanian: autonom (ro) m, n, autonomă f
Russian: автоно́мный (ru) ‎(avtonómnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: sȁmostālan (sh), àutonōman (sh),
Spanish: autónomo (es) m
Yiddish: אויטאָנאָם ‎(oytonom), אויטאָנאָמיש ‎(oytonomish)

acting on one's own

Bulgarian: самостоятелен (bg) ‎(samostojatelen)
Catalan: autònom
Japanese: 自立した ‎(jiritsu shita)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: sjølstendig (no) m, f, n, selvstendig (no) m, f, n, autonom (no) m, f

Nynorsk: sjølvstendig m, f, n, autonom m, f

Persian: خودسر (fa) ‎(xodsar), خودرای (fa) ‎(xodrāy)
Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil)
Russian: самостоя́тельный (ru) ‎(samostojátelʹnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: sȁmostālan (sh), nȅovisan (sh)
Spanish: autónomo (es)

a verb form grammar of Celtic language

Irish: saor

See also

autonomous area
autonomous navigation