Definitions for liberties

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liberties lib·er·ty

Spelling: [lib-er-tee]

IPA: /ˈlɪb ər ti/

Liberties is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 336 anagrams from letters in liberties (beeiilrst).

Definitions for liberties

noun

1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
4. freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint:
5. permission granted to a sailor, especially in the navy, to go ashore.
6. freedom or right to frequent or use a place:
7. unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech, or a form or instance of it:
8. a female figure personifying freedom from despotism.
9. a town in W Missouri.

Idioms

1. at liberty, free from captivity or restraint. unemployed; out of work. free to do or be as specified:

Origin of liberties

1325-75; Middle English liberte Middle French Latin lībertās, equivalent to līber free + -tās -ty²

Examples for liberties

liberty for all does not mean independence from one another.

We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty.

At this point Marvin gives his liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.

They will test our courage, our devotion to duty, and our concept of liberty.

But liberty is always dipping his shoulder, whirling around.

Whichever way forward works, it needs to happen, so that “liberty and just for all” actually means “all.”

The first day of liberty, I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in.

But I say to all men, what we have achieved in liberty, we will surpass in greater liberty.

What was said in the registrar's office, Emma, or aren't you at liberty to tell me?

We are looking forward to working closely with this champion of liberty.