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autons

autons is the plural of auton.

Meaning of auton

Noun

auton (plural autons)

  1. A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
    • Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.1974, Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, page 55

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Proper noun capitalized: Autons

Autons

  1. (plural) plural of Auton

Questions about autons

What is autons the plural of?
Autons is the plural of auton.
What part of speech is autons?
Autons is a proper noun.

Words near autons in the dictionary

  1. autonomy
  2. autonormalization
  3. autonosode
  4. autonosodes
  5. autonowashing
  6. autons
  7. autonumber
  8. autonumbered
  9. autonumbering
  10. autonumbers
  11. autonym

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autons (page history and authors); Autons (page history and authors); auton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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