Vocabulary
Autonomous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
Urdu meaning
خودمختار، نامحکوم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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A swing state dif-fers from a client state, which is highly dependent on a superior strategic partner, and from a security state, which is only partially autonomous.
Dawn Editorials —
A new Pakistan
— 2026-04-19
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Instead, it is strategically autonomous, flexible and avoids rigid alliances.Pakistan has earned the status of a swing state through difficult experimentation, such as balancing its relations with China and the US in the recent past.
Dawn Editorials —
A new Pakistan
— 2026-04-19
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The decapitation seems to have left intact and functioning Iran`s 12 autonomous military-aerospace commands.In terms of assessment, American analysts are split into two camps.
Dawn Editorials —
What can end the Iran war?
— 2026-03-08
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Similar agreements should cascade down to public sector corporations, autonomous bodies and attached departments.With agreements in place, directives outside their scope should cease.
Dawn Editorials —
Budget 2026-27 as a bridge
— 2026-02-28
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The Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A),housed in the Planning Division, is not listed in RoB Schedules I-II as a division or attached department; it operates ambiguously as an autonomous body.
Dawn Editorials —
Climate finance in RoB
— 2026-02-26
Synonyms
independent, self-governing, sovereign,self-determining, free, self-ruling, autarchic
Antonyms
dependent, subservient, subject
Curator example
“the federation included seventeen autonomous republics”
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