liberty

Other forms of liberty

plural

liberties·

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.

Questions about liberty

What does liberty mean?

liberty means "immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liberty?

liberty has 3 syllables: lib-er-ty. The stress falls on "lib". In IPA it is /ˈlɪbɚˌti/.

What is another word for liberty?

Close synonyms include autonomy, shore leave, familiarity, impropriety, indecorum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liberty a common word?

liberty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liberty?

66 words rhyme with liberty. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.