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Autonomous   /ɔtˈɑnəməs/   Listen
Autonomous

adjective
1.
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces.  Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign.  "A sovereign state"
2.
Existing as an independent entity.
3.
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment.  Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant.



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"Autonomous" Quotes from Famous Books



... departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 2 autonomous regions* (regiones autonomistas, singular - region autonomista); Atlantico Norte*, Atlantico Sur*, Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... be a source of grief to the natives of the republics thus protected? What is the status, political, economic and social, of these people? For what do they stand on the African continent? How have they withstood the characteristic onslaught of British colonization and imperialism? What does "the autonomous development of small nations" mean to them? Any reasonable attempt to answer questions of this nature necessitates a review, however brief it may be, of the history of South African colonization by the English and of its relation ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... actually is. One reasons, or feels, unconsciously about the matter somewhat as follows:—If the form pattern represented by the word books is identical, as far as use is concerned, with that of the word oxen, the pluralizing elements -s and -en cannot have quite so definite, quite so autonomous, a value as we might at first be inclined to suppose. They are plural elements only in so far as plurality is predicated of certain selected concepts. The words books and oxen are therefore ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... The first day of Satya-Yug will be very important for us, because it is then that will appear to us our new King with white face and golden hair, who will come from the far North. He will become the autonomous Lord of India. The Maya of human unbelief, with all the heresies over which it presides, will be thrown down to Patala" (sig-nifying at once hell and the antipodes), "and the Maya of the righteous and pious will abide with them, and ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky



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