Define sumo: a Japanese form of wrestling in which a contestant loses if he is forced out of the ring or if any part of his body except the soles of â¦ a Japanese form of wrestling in which a contestant loses if he is forced out of the ring or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet â¦
The noun INDEPENDENCE has 3 senses: 1. freedom from control or influence of another or others. 2. the successful ending of the American Revolution. 3. a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail. Familiarity information: INDEPENDENCE used as a noun is uncommon.
Independence comes from a nice medieval French word, depenre, meaning to hang from, or to hang down. The in at the beginning is Latin for not, so the word originally meant not hanging from, which is a neat description of what countries achieve by throwing off their colonizers.