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say it: i-man-suh-PAY-shuhn
emancipation is a noun meaning "freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child". It is pronounced /ɪˌmænsəˈpeɪʃən/ — i-man-suh-PAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for emancipation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.