liberty
/ˈlɪbəti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The army is here, your liberty is assured."
- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"^([sic])"
- "But as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs."
- "[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors."
- "Now liberal cultural power has increased, the ACLU doesn’t seem very interested in the liberties of non-progressives anymore, and Dr. Seuss sells as pricey samizdat."
- "The prisoners gained their liberty from an underground tunnel."
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Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈlɪbəti/