semiautonomous
adjective
semiautonomous is an adjective meaning “Partially, but not fully, autonomous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-M-I-A-U-T-O-N-O-M-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does semiautonomous mean?
adjective
- 1
Partially, but not fully, autonomous.
Hong Kong is a semiautonomous region of China.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of semiautonomous
- semi-autonomous
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is semiautonomous?
Semiautonomous appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Semiautonomous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense partially, but not fully, autonomous:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | teilautonom |
| Portuguese | semiautónomo, semiautônomo |
| Spanish | semiautónomo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.