Liberty - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- freedom of choice
liberty of worship
liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases
at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes
- leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
- an act of undue intimacy (syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum)
Extra examples
They gave him the liberty to handle the problem himself.
Hundreds of political prisoners are to be given their liberty.
Of the ten men who escaped this morning from the prison, only two are still at liberty.
I took the liberty of cancelling your reservation.
Are you at liberty to reveal any names?
What a liberty to refuse our invitation!
...the proposition that liberty and justice are constitutive elements of an enlightened society...
The Statue of Liberty has become an American cultural icon.
...though he was an outspoken defender of liberty, this son of Virginia did not manumit his own slaves until he was on his deathbed...
...guardians of liberty who staunchly oppugned tyranny, whether from the right or the left...
The putative champions of liberty took up the cry of dissent only after it had become profitable and safe ...
...a spiral staircase takes visitors up into the Statue of Liberty...
His honours lost, his lands escheated, and his liberty restrained.
The rabble of mankind know nothing of liberty except the name.
Personal liberty is the marrow of the American tradition.
Word forms
singular: liberty
plural: liberties
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