Hyphenation of autonomous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word autonomous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

au-tonomous

Definitions of autonomous:

1.	(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces An autonomous judiciary A sovereign state
2.	Existing as an independent entity The partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies
3.	(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

Synonyms of autonomous:

adj	independent, self-governing, sovereign, free
adj	independent
adj	self-directed, self-reliant, independent

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.