Meanings
- not comparableautonomous
1 more example
Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Hindi स्वायत्त
- स्वायत्त (svāyatt)self-governing — see also autonomous
Norwegian Bokmål selvstyrende
- selvstyrendeself-governing — see also autonomous
Polish samorządny, autonomiczny
- samorządnyself-governing — see also autonomous
- autonomicznyself-governing — see also autonomous
Cite this entry
self-governing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-governing
“self-governing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-governing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-governing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-governing.
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