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English
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Etymology
From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.
Pronunciation
Noun
liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)
- The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
The army is here, your liberty is assured.
1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Nicolay draft, page 1: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"
2014 July 5, “Freedom fighter”, in The Economist, volume 412, number 8894:[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.
- The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
The prisoners gained their liberty from an underground tunnel.
- The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
1869, Robert Burns, “The Tree of Liberty”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume III (Posthumous Poems), Kilmarnock, Scotland: James M‘Kie, →OCLC, page 360:I'd gie my ſhoon frae aff my feet, / To taſte ſic fruit, I ſwear, man. / Syne let us pray, auld England may / Sure plant this far-famed tree, man; / And blythe we'll ſing, and hail the day / That gave us liberty, man.
- Freedom from excessive government control.
- A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
We're going on a three-day liberty as soon as we dock.
- (often plural) A breach of social convention.
You needn't take such liberties.
- (historical) A local division of government administration in medieval England.
- (go) An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.
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condition of being free
- Afrikaans: vryheid
- Albanian: liri (sq) m
- Amharic: ነፃነት (näṣ́anät)
- Arabic: حُرِيَّة (ar) f (ḥuriyya)
- Armenian: ազատություն (hy) (azatutʻyun)
- Asturian: llibertá (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: azadlıq (az), hürriyət
- Basque: askatasun
- Belarusian: свабо́да (be) f (svabóda), во́льнасць (be) f (vólʹnascʹ)
- Bengali: স্বাধীনতা (bn) (śadhinota), আজাদি (bn) (ajadi)
- Bulgarian: свобода́ (bg) f (svobodá)
- Burmese: လွတ်လပ်ခွင့် (my) (lwatlaphkwang.)
- Catalan: llibertat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 自由 (zi6 jau4)
- Dungan: зыю (zɨi͡u)
- Eastern Min: 自由 (cê̤ṳ-iù)
- Hakka: 自由 (chhṳ-yù)
- Hokkien: 自由 (zh-min-nan) (chū-iû)
- Mandarin: 自由 (zh) (zìyóu)
- Wu: 自由 (6zy-yeu)
- Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙϩⲉ f (metremhe)
- Crimean Tatar: azatlıq
- Czech: svoboda (cs) f
- Danish: frihed c
- Dutch: vrijheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: libereco (eo)
- Estonian: vabadus
- Fala: libertai f
- Faliscan: 𐌋𐌏𐌉𐌚𐌉𐌓𐌕𐌀𐌔 (loifirtas)
- Finnish: vapaus (fi)
- French: liberté (fr) f
- Galician: liberdade (gl) f
- Georgian: თავისუფლება (tavisupleba)
- German: Freiheit (de) f
- Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 m (freihals), 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐌴𐌹 f (frijei)
- Greek: ελευθερία (el) f (elefthería)
- Ancient: ἐλευθερία f (eleuthería)
- Haitian Creole: libète
- Hebrew: חרות (he) f (kherút)
- Hindi: आज़ादी (hi) (āzādī)
- Hungarian: szabadság (hu)
- Icelandic: frelsi (is) n
- Ido: libereso (io)
- Ingrian: vapaisus
- Irish: saoirse f
- Italian: libertà (it) f
- Jamaican Creole: libati
- Japanese: 自由 (ja) (じゆう, jiyū)
- Kazakh: азаттық (azattyq), ерік (kk) (erık), бостандық (kk) (bostandyq), еркіндік (erkındık)
- Khmer: សេរីភាព (km) (seerəyphiəp)
- Korean: 자유(自由) (ko) (jayu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: azadî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: азаттык (ky) (azattık), эркиндик (ky) (erkindik), боштондук (ky) (boştonduk), эрк (ky) (erk)
- Lao: ອິດສະຫຼະພາບ (lo) (ʼit sa la phāp)
- Latin: lībertās (la) f
- Latvian: brīvība
- Lithuanian: laisvė (lt) f
- Macedonian: слобода f (sloboda)
- Malayalam: സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം (ml) (svātantryaṁ)
- Mongolian: эрх чөлөө (erx čölöö)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frihet (no) m
- Nynorsk: fridom m
- Persian: آزادی (fa) (âzâdi)
- Polish: wolność (pl) f, swoboda (pl) f
- Portuguese: liberdade (pt) f
- Romanian: libertate (ro) f, slobod (ro) f
- Russian: свобо́да (ru) f (svobóda)
- Scottish Gaelic: saorsa f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слобо̀да f
- Roman: slobòda (sh) f
- Slovak: sloboda f
- Slovene: svoboda (sl) f
- Southern Altai: эркин (erkin)
- Spanish: libertad (es) f
- Swedish: frihet (sv) c
- Tajik: озодӣ (tg) (ozodī)
- Tatar: азатлык (tt) (azatlıq), ирек (tt) (irek)
- Thai: เสรีภาพ (th) (sěe-rii-pâap)
- Turkish: hürriyet (tr), özgürlük (tr)
- Turkmen: azatlyk (tk), erkinlik
- Ukrainian: свобо́да (uk) f (svobóda), ві́льність f (vílʹnistʹ)
- Urdu: آزادی (ur) (āzādī)
- Uyghur: ئەركىنلىك (erkinlik)
- Uzbek: ozodlik (uz), erkinlik (uz), hurlik (uz), hurriyat (uz), erk (uz)
- Vietnamese: tự do (vi) (自由)
- Welsh: rhyddid (cy) m
- Yucatec Maya: jáalkʼab
- Zhuang: swyouz (自由)
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- Chinese: 气 (zh) (qì)
- Japanese: 呼吸点 (kokyūten)
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Further reading
- “liberty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “liberty”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Liberty in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- liberty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Liberty (division) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Italian
Etymology
From Liberty & Co., store founded in 1875 by Arthur Lasenby Liberty, a merchant who specialized in Indian and East Asian goods and whose store played a pivotal role in developing the art nouveau style.
Pronunciation
Noun
liberty m (invariable)
- art nouveau
References
- ^ liberty in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.