English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.
Pronunciation
Noun
liberation (countable and uncountable, plural liberations)
- The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.
Derived terms
Translations
act of liberating or the state of being liberated
- Albanian: çlirim (sq) m
- Arabic: تَحْرِير m (taḥrīr)
- Armenian: ազատագրում (hy) (azatagrum), ազատում (hy) (azatum)
- Belarusian: вызвале́нне n (vyzvaljénnje)
- Bengali: মুক্তি (mukti)
- Bulgarian: освобожде́ние (bg) n (osvoboždénie)
- Catalan: alliberament (ca) m, alliberació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng)
- Czech: osvobození (cs) n
- Danish: befrielse c, frigørelse c
- Dutch: bevrijding (nl) f
- Esperanto: liberigo
- Estonian: vabastamine
- Finnish: vapautus (fi)
- French: libération (fr) f
- Georgian: განთავისუფლება (ka) (gantavisupleba)
- German: Befreiung (de) f
- Hindi: मुक्ति (hi) f (mukti)
- Hungarian: felszabadítás (hu)
- Italian: liberazione (it) f
- Japanese: 解放 (ja) (かいほう, kaihō)
- Korean: 해방 (ko) (haebang) (解放 (ko))
- Lao: ການປົດປ່ອຍ (kān pot pǭi)
- Latvian: atbrīvošana f
- Lithuanian: išsivadavimas m
- Macedonian: ослободување n (osloboduvanje)
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- Maltese: liberazzjoni f
- Maori: whakawāteatanga
- Mongolian: чөлөөлөлт (čölöölölt), ангижрал (mn) (angižral)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mfunguo class 3/4
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frigjøring (no) m or f
- Oriya: ମୁକ୍ତି (or) (mukti)
- Persian: رهایی (fa) (rahâyi), تحریر (fa) (tahrir)
- Polish: wyzwolenie (pl) n, oswobodzenie (pl) n, uwolnienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: liberação (pt) f, libertação (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਅਜ਼ਾਦੀ (pa) (azādī), ਲਿਬ੍ਰੇਸ਼ਨ (libreśan), ਰਿਹਾਈ (rihāī)
- Romanian: liberație f
- Russian: освобожде́ние (ru) n (osvoboždénije)
- Sanskrit: मोक्ष (sa) m (mokṣa)
- Scottish Gaelic: saoradh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ослобођење n
- Roman: oslobođenje (sh) n
- Slovak: oslobodenie n
- Spanish: liberación (es) f
- Swedish: befrielse (sv) c, frigörelse c
- Thai: การปลดปล่อย (th) (gaan-bplòt-bplɔ̀i)
- Turkish: liberasyon (tr), özgürlestirme
- Ukrainian: визво́лення n (vyzvólennja), зві́льнення n (zvílʹnennja)
- Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放), sự giải phóng (vi)
- Yiddish: באַפֿרײַונג f (bafrayung)
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process of striving to achieve equal rights and status
Further reading
- “liberation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “liberation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- "liberation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 181.
