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au·ton·o·mous

(ô-tŏn′ə-məs)

adj.

1. Not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent: an autonomous judiciary; an autonomous division of a corporate conglomerate.

2. Independent in mind or judgment; self-directed.

a. Independent of the laws of another state or government; self-governing.

b. Of or relating to a self-governing entity: an autonomous legislature.

c. Self-governing with respect to local or internal affairs: an autonomous region of a country.

4. Autonomic.

[From Greek autonomos : auto-, auto- + nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

au·ton′o·mous·ly adv.

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autonomous

(ɔːˈtɒnəməs)

adj

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (of a community, country, etc) possessing a large degree of self-government

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of or relating to an autonomous community

3. independent of others

4. (Philosophy) philosophy

a. acting or able to act in accordance with rules and principles of one's own choosing

b. (in the moral philosophy of Kant, of an individual's will) directed to duty rather than to some other end. Compare heteronomous³ See also categorical imperative

5. (Biology) biology existing as an organism independent of other organisms or parts

6. (Botany) a variant spelling of autonomic³

[C19: from Greek autonomos living under one's own laws, from auto- + nomos law]

auˈtonomously adv

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au•ton•o•mous

(ɔˈtɒn ə məs)

adj.

1. self-governing; independent.

2. of or pertaining to a self-governing or independent state, community, organization, etc.

3. Biol.

a. existing and functioning as an independent organism.

b. spontaneous.

[1790–1800; < Greek autónomos with laws of one's own, independent]

au•ton′o•mous•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	autonomous - (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" self-governing, sovereign, independent free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"
	2.	autonomous - existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies" independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"
	3.	autonomous - (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment self-directed, self-reliant independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

autonomous

adjective self-ruling, free, independent, sovereign, self-sufficient, self-governing, self-determining They declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

autonomous

adjective

Having political independence:

free, independent, self-governing, sovereign.

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autónomo

autonomous

[ɔːˈtɒnəməs] ADJ → autónomo

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autonomy

(oːˈtonəmi) noun

the power or right of a country etc to govern itself. autonomía

auˈtonomous adjective

self-governing. autónomo

autonomous

→ autónomo

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Till the 25th October Crete, as all our planet knows, was the sole surviving European repository of "autonomous institutions," "local self-government," and the rest of the archaic lumber devised in the past for the confusion of human affairs.

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In another he would find organising forces stoutly at work, newly-painted notice boards warning off vagrants, the roads and still cultivated fields policed by armed men, the pestilence under control, even nursing going on, a store of food husbanded, the cattle and sheep well guarded, and a group of two or three justices, the village doctor or a farmer, dominating the whole place; a reversion, in fact, to the autonomous community of the fifteenth century.

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