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Liberty
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See also: liberty
English
Etymology
From liberty.
Proper noun
Liberty (countable and uncountable, plural Libertys)
- A surname.
- A unisex given name.
- A female given name from English.
- 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, →ISBN, page 171:
- 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.
- A male given name from English.
- A female given name from English.
- A number of places in the United States, including:
- A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas.
- A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky.
- A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri.
- A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas.
- A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.
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Noun
Liberty (uncountable)
- Used attributively to designate various items (especially textiles) sold by (or characteristic of) the Liberty department store in Regent Street, London. [from 19th c.]
- 1894, William John Locke, At the Gate of Samaria:
- It had long been dismantled of the Liberty curtains, Persian rugs, and cheap Japaneseries.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 40, in Of Human Bondage:
- The piano was draped in Liberty silk and so was the chimney-piece.
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