liberty

noun liberties · libertie

1. countable, uncountable The condition of being free. The army is here, your liberty is assured.
2. countable, uncountable The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour. The prisoners gained their liberty from an underground tunnel.
3. countable, uncountable 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.
4. countable, uncountable Freedom from excessive government control. The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
5. countable, uncountable A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore. We're going on a three-day liberty as soon as we dock.
6. countable, often, plural, uncountable A breach of social convention. You needn't take such liberties.
7. countable, historical, uncountable A local division of government administration in medieval England.
8. countable, uncountable An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

Similar: freedom

proper noun Libertys

1. countable, uncountable A surname from French.
2. countable, uncountable A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
3. countable, uncountable A female given name from English. Then last came Liberty. What a name, Mason always thought. It was an invention of her mother's―a flighty woman who had run away from Porter with a hippie stereo salesman eight and a half years ago and discovered immediately afterward that she was two months pregnant.
4. countable, uncountable A male given name from English.
5. countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana.
6. countable, uncountable A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas.
7. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky.
8. countable, uncountable A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi.
9. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri.
10. countable, uncountable A town and village therein, in Sullivan County, New York.
11. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas.
12. countable, uncountable A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
13. countable, uncountable A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
14. countable, uncountable A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
15. countable, uncountable A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
16. countable, uncountable A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.

noun

1. uncountable Used attributively to designate various items (especially textiles) sold by (or characteristic of) the Liberty department store in Regent Street, London. It had long been dismantled of the Liberty curtains, Persian rugs, and cheap Japaneseries.