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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024au•ton•o•mous /ɔˈtɑnəməs/USA pronunciation adj. - Governmentself-governing:an autonomous republic.
- Governmentable to act on one's own;
independent:With your own business you will be autonomous. au•ton•o•mous•ly, adv. See -nom-1. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024au•ton•o•mous (ô ton′ə məs),USA pronunciation adj. - Government
- self-governing;
independent; subject to its own laws only. - pertaining to an autonomy.
- Governmenthaving autonomy;
not subject to control from outside; independent:a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit. - Biology, Ecology
- existing and functioning as an independent organism.
- spontaneous.
- Greek autónomos with laws of one's own, independent, equivalent. to auto- auto-1 + nóm(os) law, custom + -os adjective, adjectival suffix
- 1790–1800
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