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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.
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name
A surname.
A surname from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A unisex given name.
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A unisex given name.
A male given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town and village therein, in Sullivan County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, including:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The condition of being free.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Freedom from excessive government control.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A breach of social convention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, often, plural, uncountable
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noun
A local division of government administration in medieval England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: go
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noun
Used attributively to designate various items (especially textiles) sold by (or characteristic of) the Liberty department store in Regent Street, London.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
an act of undue intimacy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed
noun
immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: autonomy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: independence, independency
Narrower terms: self-government, self-determination, self-rule
noun
freedom of choice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: freedom
Narrower terms: license, licence, latitude, discretion, run
noun
personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: freedom
noun
leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shore leave
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leave, leave of absence
History
From liberty.
From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.
Across languages
110 source translations are retained for this English entry.
