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autonomous

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Etymology

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Fromautonomy +‎-ous.

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Adjective

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autonomous (comparativemoreautonomous,superlativemostautonomous)

  1. Self-governing. Intelligent,sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governingindependently.
    Synonyms:sovereign,self-governing
  2. Acting on one's own orindependently; of achild, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
    Synonyms:self-standing,self-directed
    • 2022 October 4, Soumya Karlamangla, “Behind the Story: Navigating San Francisco in a Driverless Car”, inThe New York Times[1]:
      Though Cade has for years reported on the development ofautonomous vehicles, test drives usually have so-called safety drivers who ride along and can take over in case something goes wrong.
  3. (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as thepassive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is thesubject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is theobject and there is no subject).

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self-governingsee alsoindependent
acting on one's own
a verb form grammar of Celtic language

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