Thesaurus: independence

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1. 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.
2. n. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
3. n. freedom from control or influence of another or others
4. n. the successful ending of the American Revolution
5. 1. 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. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope. 2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.
6. n:100 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