Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- n. The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of liberating or setting free; deliverance from restraint or confinement; enlargement; disengagement, as from constraint or obligation, or from mixture: as, liberation from prison or from debt; the liberation of a country from tyrannical government; the liberation of a gas.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- n. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the attempt to achieve equal rights or status
- n. the act of liberating someone or something
- n. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Etymologies
- From French libération, from Latin liberatio ("a freeing"), from liberare past participle liberatus ("set free"); see liberate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This meaning, from our Occidental viewpoint, is best translated in the term liberation, signifying to be set free from the limitations of sense, and of self-consciousness, and to have glimpsed the larger area of consciousness, that takes in the very cosmos.”
“Over 95 per cent of the borrowers are women, and their liberation is a major concern for Yunus and Grameen Bank.”
“We're also told that it is meant to mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, what they call the liberation of Baghdad.”
“But while people are enjoying what they call their liberation, life in the capital is a struggle.”
“BEIJING -- China marked 50 years of direct control over Tibet on Saturday, raising the national flag in the regional capital and commemorating a new political holiday honoring what it calls the liberation of slaves from brutal feudal rule.”
““He insisted it be called Africa Liberation Day, not just Africa Day, because that sounds like celebrating something in the past whereas Africa's liberation is a struggle still to be achieved.””
Global Voices in English » Africa: Remembering Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
“Are the organisers, while completely well-meaning, pushing a Western interpretation of “empowerment” where beauty and liberation is equated with being sexy and showing skin?”
Global Voices in English » Cambodia: Miss Landmine Pageant Raises Questions
“AB: The only thing Aqua Buddha endorses is liberation from the wheel of suffering.”
The Washington Post: Exclusive -- interview with Aqua Buddha
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The things they carried (List 2)
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