Meaning

1 senses

  1. A person who frees or liberates.

    Befreier, Befreierin, Erlöser

    освободительosvoboditelʹ, освободи́тельницаosvobodítelʹnica

    визволи́тельvyzvolýtelʹ

More definitions
  • someone who releases people from captivity or bondage

Examples

2 sentences

  1. An international language cannot be liberatory in itself, but only in the hands of liberators.

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  2. The US expected the Iraqis to see American troops as liberators.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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person who frees or liberates:
Русский
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person who frees or liberates:
Deutsch
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person who frees or liberates:

Origin

From Latin līberātor (“one who sets free”), from līberāre, past participle līberātus (“to

From Latin līberātor (“one who sets free”), from līberāre, past participle līberātus (“to set free”); see liberate.

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Forms

plural: liberators
Singularliberator
Pluralliberators

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
delivereremancipatormanumittermanumittor

Antonyms

3 antonyms
enslaveroppressor
captor

Word family

4 related words
RelatedliberateB1liberationB1libertyA2
Derivedliberatress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
liberateB1liberationB1libertarianlibertarianismlibertyA2

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