EGAVE

autonomous

About 9.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Governing itself independently.
    an autonomous territory
  2. adjective Of or relating to a territory that governs itself independently.
  3. adjective Sentient; self-aware.
  4. adjective Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
  5. adjective 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).

Similar words

self-reliant self-directed self-governing independent sovereign free subjective self distinct self-regulating

Often followed by

and region regions in republic system agents republics state

Word family

autonomously

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