Word Type

Noun

The word "automaton" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

banking car assembly plant factory lab museum science fiction plot

Derived Terms

Büchi automaton Obamaton automatonlike automatonophobia auton biautomaton cellular automaton finite automaton finite-state automaton pushdown automaton semiautomaton teleautomaton

Derived From

auto

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

actor doer mechanism worker

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

robot

Type Of (IsA)

device machine mechanism person precursor to robots robot

Related Terms

automat automatic automation automatization automatize

Related Terms

automat automate automatic automation automatization automatize emotion figure finite automaton formal system lifestyle machine mechanical monotonous robot toy

Used For

do chores do things automatically vacuum carpet work for

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.