Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being independent.
- n. Archaic Sufficient income for comfortable self-support; a competence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being independent; exemption from dependence upon another or others, or from another's control; self-support or self-government.
- n. That which renders one independent; property or income sufficient to make one independent of others; a competency.
- n. In botany, the abnormal separation of organs or parts which are usually united.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
- n. The state of having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
- n. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. freedom from control or influence of another or others
- n. the successful ending of the American Revolution
- n. a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail
Examples
“The use of the term independence has been a bone of contention in Plaid Cymru for decades.”
“To gain independence is not easy as it seems, we have to sacrifice and fight till end.”
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“Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British?”
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“If we DO have another vessel, than the idea of keeping the Shuttle to maintain independence is even more preposterous since we can do that without it.”
“His predecessor, Sukarno, had helped Indonesia win independence from the Dutch and was trying to balance the right with the left in Indonesian politics.”
“A second association involves attempts by the caliphate to gain independence from the Seljuks.”
“Corsica was attempting to win independence from the Italian state of Genoa.”
“Freeway was asked how, between his label independence and the Internet age, his fan relationships have changed.”
“Some ethnic groups may use the word "independence" in their organization's name.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘independence’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - governing principles of the EU
constitutional de..., constitutional tr..., social market eco..., cultural diversity, democracy, diversity of cult..., diversity of trad..., equality, equality between ..., free movement of ..., free movement of ..., free movement of ... and 34 more...
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Freedom to Read
freedom, read, liberty, success, enjoyment, learning, skill, ability, accomplishment, achievement, intellectual, joy and 11 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Things I adore
words, linguistics, etymology, philosophy, literature, research, poetry, science, cognition, solitude, nihilism, zen and 139 more...
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Values List
In coaching or psychology work, it is often postulated that people have a personal list of abstract, subjectively defined, emotional concepts that drive them (often called 'values') to answer the b...
honesty, stability, justice, respect, wealth, truth, compassion, creativity, resourcefulness, health, courage, adventure and 66 more...
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The Great Firewall of China
This is a list of search words, websites, and programs that are or have been censored/banned on the internet in China
tiananmen square, human rights, freedom, democracy, google, skype, falun gong, falun dafa, voice of america, bbc, dalai lama, tibet and 10 more...
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history
invasion
pact
conquer
renaissance
congress
feudalism
empire
colonialism
revolution
enlightment
bourgeoise
civilization
migrat...invasion, pact, conquer, renaissance, congress, feudalism, empire, colonialism, revolution, enlightment, bourgeoise, civilization and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for independence.
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