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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



... much of each other on these long, uninterrupted rides. They had nothing much to talk about but themselves, and, while she received a liberal education concerning Arctic travel and gold-mining, he, in turn, touch by touch, painted an ever clearer portrait of her. She amplified the ranch life of her girlhood, prattling on about horses and dogs and persons ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... pensions for men of merit all the world over; how much better it would have been, if the spirit of the time had admitted of it, that they should have left the men of merit to themselves! The period of the Restoration has the credit of being a liberal one; yet we should certainly not like to live now under a regime which warped such a genius as Cuvier, stifled with paltry compromises the keen mind of M. Cousin, and retarded the growth of criticism by half a century. The concessions ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... begin at the beginning,' thought she to herself. 'Mathematics and the Parmenides are enough for him as yet. Without a training in the liberal sciences be cannot gain a faith worthy of those gods to whom some day I shall present him; and I should find his Christian ignorance and fanaticism transferred, whole and rude, to the service of those gods whose shrine is unapproachable save to the spiritual ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... us! But truly are we blessed in Nordhausen. Such terrors seem remote as Egypt's plagues. I warrant you our Landgrave dare not harry Such creditors as we. See, here comes one, The greatest and most liberal of them all— ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus
... caught in the dead-fall. Garrote trap or a twitch-up, baiting with fish, muskrat, flesh, or the head of a bird, of which the animal is especially fond. A liberal use of the "medicine" is ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson


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