liberation

See also libération

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French libération, from Latin liberatio (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

liberation (plural liberations)

1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.

Related terms

• liberate

Translations

act of liberating or the state of being liberated

Arabic: تحرير (ar) (taHriir) m. Armenian: ազատագրում (hy) (azatagrum), ազատում (hy) (azatum) Belarusian: вызваленне (be) (vyzvalénne) n. Bulgarian: освобождение (bg) (osvoboždénie) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng) Czech: osvobození (cs) n. Dutch: bevrijding (nl) f. Esperanto: liberigo (eo) Finnish: vapautus (fi) French: libération (fr) f. German: Befreiung (de) f. Hindi: मुक्ति (hi) (Mukti) f. Italian: liberazione (it) f. Japanese: 解放 (ja) (かいほう, kaihō)

Korean: 해방 (ko) (haebang) (解放 (ko)) Macedonian: ослободување (mk) (osloboduvanje) n. Maltese: liberazzjoni (mt) f. Mongolian: yuagub (mn) Oriya: ମୁକ୍ତି (or) Polish: wyzwolenie (pl) n. Russian: освобождение (ru) (osvoboždénije) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ослобођење (sh) n. Roman: oslobođenje (sh) n. Slovak: oslobodenie (sk) n. Spanish: liberación (es) f. Turkish: iberasyon (tr), özgürlestirme (tr) Ukrainian: визволення (uk) (vyzvólennja) n. Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放 (vi)), sự giải phóng (vi)

process of striving to achieve equal rights and status

Maltese: liberazzjoni (mt) f.

External links

• liberation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• liberation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911