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Liberal   /lˈɪbərəl/  /lˈɪbrəl/   Listen
Liberal

adjective
1.
Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.  Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant.  "Generous and broad sympathies" , "A liberal newspaper" , "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
2.
Having political or social views favoring reform and progress.
3.
Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition.  Antonym: conservative.
4.
Given or giving freely.  Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded.  "The bounteous goodness of God" , "Bountiful compliments" , "A freehanded host" , "A handsome allowance" , "Saturday's child is loving and giving" , "A liberal backer of the arts" , "A munificent gift" , "Her fond and openhanded grandfather"
5.
Not literal.  Synonyms: free, loose.  "A free translation of the poem"
noun
1.
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.  Synonyms: liberalist, progressive.  Antonym: conservative.
2.
A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.



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"Liberal" Quotes from Famous Books



... curled a little. 'And Robert,' she cried, bending forward as though something had just occurred to her, 'do tell me—I vowed I would ask—is Mr. Langham a Liberal or ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... adverse decision by the courts seems to have greatly exasperated the astronomer. Serious changes also took place in his relations to the court at Copenhagen. When the young king was crowned in 1596, he reversed the policy of his predecessor with reference to Hven. The liberal allowances to Tycho were one after another withdrawn, and finally even his pension was stopped. Tycho accordingly abandoned Hven in a tumult of rage and mortification. A few years later we find him in Bohemia a prematurely aged man, and he died ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball
... to go to college," said his mother. "I wish him to be a scholarly man, whatever profession he decides upon afterward. I could not bear that he should not have a liberal education." ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor
... the public prosperity, for although I got the greater part of the money that strangers expended in the city, the rest went into the channels of trade, and I was myself a liberal investor, purchaser and employer, and a patron of the arts and sciences. The City of the Gone Away grew so rapidly that in a few years it had inclosed my cemetery, despite its own constant growth. In that fact lay the lion ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... the castle for assistance and work, and none were turned empty-handed away. A small army was put to work to construct an embankment that would prevent further encroachment upon the garden by the water, while to Herr Mercatoris the count sent a liberal sum of money to be distributed among the sufferers ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai


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