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liberator

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪtə/
  • General-American: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪtəɹ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: L IH1 B ER2 EY2 T AH0 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A person who frees or liberates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

someone who releases people from captivity or bondage

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: captor

Broader terms: benefactor, helper

Narrower terms: emancipator, manumitter

History

Etymology

Originally given to someone who liberated slaves; a liberator.

From Latin līberātor (“one who sets free”), from līberāre, past participle līberātus (“to set free”); see liberate.

Across languages

Translations

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُحَرِّر (muḥarrir) — person who frees or liberates
  • Arabic: مُعْتِق (muʕtiq) — person who frees or liberates
  • Catalan: alliberador — person who frees or liberates
  • Catalan: alliberadora — person who frees or liberates
  • Czech: osvoboditel — person who frees or liberates
  • Czech: osvoboditelka — person who frees or liberates
  • Danish: befrier — person who frees or liberates
  • Dutch: bevrijder — person who frees or liberates
  • Esperanto: liberiganto — person who frees or liberates
  • Finnish: vapauttaja — person who frees or liberates
  • Finnish: liberaattori — person who frees or liberates
  • French: libérateur — person who frees or liberates
  • German: Befreier — person who frees or liberates
  • German: Befreierin — person who frees or liberates
  • German: Erlöser — person who frees or liberates
  • German: Erlöserin — person who frees or liberates
  • Hindi: मसीहा (masīhā) — person who frees or liberates
  • Hungarian: felszabadító — person who frees or liberates
  • Ido: liberiganto — person who frees or liberates
  • Ido: liberigero — person who frees or liberates
  • Italian: liberatore — person who frees or liberates
  • Italian: liberatrice — person who frees or liberates
  • Latin: līberātor — person who frees or liberates
  • Latin: līberātrīx — person who frees or liberates
  • Lithuanian: išvaduotojas — person who frees or liberates
  • Macedonian: ослободител (osloboditel) — person who frees or liberates
  • Norwegian Bokmål: befrier — person who frees or liberates
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: befriar — person who frees or liberates
  • Polish: oswobodziciel — person who frees or liberates
  • Polish: oswobodzicielka — person who frees or liberates
  • Polish: wyzwoliciel mwyzwolicielka — person who frees or liberates
  • Portuguese: libertador — person who frees or liberates
  • Portuguese: libertadora — person who frees or liberates
  • Punjabi: ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ (bandī choṛ) — person who frees or liberates
  • Punjabi: ਮਸੀਹਾ (masīhā) — person who frees or liberates
  • Russian: освободитель (osvoboditelʹ) — person who frees or liberates
  • Russian: освободи́тельница (osvobodítelʹnica) — person who frees or liberates
  • Spanish: libertador — person who frees or liberates
  • Spanish: libertadora — person who frees or liberates
  • Swahili: mkombozi — person who frees or liberates
  • Swedish: befriare — person who frees or liberates
  • Ukrainian: визволи́тель (vyzvolýtelʹ) — person who frees or liberates
  • Volapük: libükan — person who frees or liberates
  • Volapük: hilibükan — person who frees or liberates
  • Volapük: jilibükan — person who frees or liberates
  • Yiddish: באַפֿרײַער (bafrayer) — person who frees or liberates
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