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Liberty

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See also: liberty

English

Etymology

From liberty.

Proper noun

Liberty (countable and uncountable, plural Libertys)

  1. A surname.
    1. A surname from French.
    2. A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A unisex given name.
    1. 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.
    2. A male given name from English.
  3. A number of places in the United States, including:
    1. A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana.
    2. A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas.
    3. A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky.
    4. A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi.
    5. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri.
    6. A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas.
    7. A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
    8. A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
    9. A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
    10. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
    11. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.

Derived terms

Noun

Liberty (uncountable)

  1. 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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