Liberty

See also: liberty

English

Etymology

From liberty.

Proper noun

Liberty (countable and uncountable, plural Libertys)

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from French.
   2. A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
2. A unisex given name
   1. A female given name from English.
      • 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, →ISBN, page 171:

        Then last came Liberty. What a name, Mason always thought. It was an invention of her mother's―a flighty woman who had run away from Porter with a hippie stereo salesman eight and a half years ago and discovered immediately afterward that she was two months pregnant.

   2. A male given name from English.
3. A placename:
   1. A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana, United States.
   2. A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States
   3. A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky, United States.
   4. A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi, United States.
   5. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri, United States.
   6. A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas, United States
   7. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.

Derived terms

• West Liberty
• South Liberty

Related terms

• Liberty County

Noun

Liberty (uncountable)

1. Used attributively to designate various items (especially textiles) sold by (or characteristic of) the Liberty department store in Regent Street, London. [from 19th c.]
   • 1894, William John Locke, At the Gate of Samaria:

     It had long been dismantled of the Liberty curtains, Persian rugs, and cheap Japaneseries.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 40, in Of Human Bondage:

     The piano was draped in Liberty silk and so was the chimney-piece.

Anagrams

• Birtley, Tribley