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# autochthony

«autochthony» in Mova's school dictionary: **The idea that a people has always lived in its own land…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (rare; no plural used)

### meaning for a pupil

The idea that a people has always lived in its own land, or that they came out of the earth there; a rare word from learned writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales and learned books, an old theory that the first people sprang from the soil of their own land.

### examples

- The old theory of autochthony was dropped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x1)
- Some tales say the first people came out of the earth, an idea called autochthony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x2)
- Autochthony comes from Greek words meaning self and earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «autochthony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/autochthony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.