Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LIBERAL

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Definitions of LIBERAL

1. Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
2. Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
3. One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
4. A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
5. Of or relating to the Liberal party, its membership, or its platform, policy, or viewpoint.
6. Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.
7. (now, rare, outside, set phrases) Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training.
8. (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
9. (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
10. (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
11. (British politics) A Liberal Democrat.
12. (British politics, dated) A Whig.
13. (Australian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Australia.
14. (politics) A political party and philosophy
15. (politics) A member or supporter of a Liberal Party
16. A unincorporated community in Spencer County, Indiana, USA.
17. A city in county seat in Seward County, Kansas, USA.
18. A small city in Barton County, Missouri, USA.
19. A unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, USA.
20. (US politics) Someone with progressive or left-wing views; one with a left-wing ideology.
21. (UK politics) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).
22. (Australian politics) A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.

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Examples of Using LIBERAL in a Sentence

• He is known for writing a number of works based upon the teachings of the liberal arts, with one of his most renowned poems, De planctu Naturae ("The Complaint of Nature"), focusing on sexual conduct among humans.
• The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.
• Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party splinter groups, it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time.
• Crandall University is a Baptist Christian liberal arts university located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
• Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy".
• Barnard College, officially titled as Barnard College, Columbia University, is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
• The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP), commonly known as the Country Liberals, is a centre-right and conservative political party in Australia's Northern Territory.
• Classical liberalism, contrary to liberal branches like social liberalism, looks more negatively on social policies, taxation and the state involvement in the lives of individuals, and it advocates deregulation.
• Since the end of World War II, the United States has had a grand strategy which has been characterized as being oriented around primacy, "deep engagement", and/or liberal hegemony.
• The ALDE Party is affiliated with Liberal International and a recognised European political party, incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.
• Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, rather than machines or techniques, and about liberal, rather than vocational, topics.
• The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of former liberal political parties which existed in Germany before World War II, namely the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.
• Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while its values and institutions remain central to modern French political discourse.
• Fukuyama is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argues that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and political struggle and become the final form of human government, an assessment met with numerous and substantial criticisms.
• Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
• There he received a liberal education at the Lyceum and Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann drew his attention to the languages and literature of the East.
• Telecommunications is the main economic sector of Ghana according to the statistics of the World Bank due to the Ghana liberal policy around Information and communications technology (ICT).
• The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges located in the states around the Great Lakes.
• Laws of some countries may afford civilians a right to keep and bear arms, and have more liberal gun laws than neighboring jurisdictions.
• The party system is dominated by the conservative National Party of Honduras, the Liberal Party of Honduras, and Liberty and Refoundation.
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992 (except for a two-week break in 1982, after the FDP had left the Third Schmidt cabinet), making him the longest-serving occupant of either post and the only person to have held one of these positions under two different Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering.
• The college has a liberal arts focus, and offers several pre-professional programs, along with some graduate programs.
• After King Abdullah II's accession to the throne in 1999, liberal economic policies were introduced.

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