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say it: LIB-ur-tee
liberty is a noun meaning "immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence". It is pronounced /ˈlɪbɚˌti/ — LIB-ur-tee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
freedom of choice
“liberty of opinion”
“liberty of worship”
“liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases”
“at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”
personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
an act of undue intimacy
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 liberty 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.