Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. 2. (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property. 3. (a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind. 4. (a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner. 5. (a.) Separate from; exclusive; irrespective. 6. (a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. 7. (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions. 8. (a.) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party. 9. (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority. 10. (n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

Multi-Version Concordance Independent (1 Occurrence) 1 Corinthians 11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)