liberator
pronunciation
How to pronounce liberator in British English:
UK ['lɪbəreɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce liberator in American English:
US [ˈlɪbəˌretɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
Word Origin
- liberator (n.)
- 1640s, from Latin liberator "one who sets free, a deliverer," agent noun from past participle stem of liberare (see liberate).
Example
- 1. The figure of a bronze soldier is seen as a heroic liberator by many locals with russian ancestry .
- 2. Endowed with a reliable method of written communication for the first time in history , blind people had a significant rise in social status , and louis braille was embraced as a kind of liberator and spiritual savior .
- 3. Kim jong il visited cities in jilin province where his father first learned communist ideology and that were key to the myth of his father as a liberator who returned to north korea to help free it from japanese rule .
- 4. America 's secret entry into the war in laos in the early 1960s finally destroyed his vision of " an america that used its power to build democracy in the region , that could distinguish between local grievances and global communism , and that inspired asians as a liberator , not as a new colonizer . "