Liberator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Liberator
< Latin līberātor, equivalent to līberā ( re ) to liberate + -tor -tor
Explanation
A liberator is someone who sets people free from captivity. Abolitionists were liberators who fought to free African-American slaves from bondage in the years before the Civil War. Both liberator and liberty derive from the Latin liberare meaning "to set free." A liberator is someone who provides liberty, or freedom, to people held captive or repressed. At the end of the Holocaust, allied forces entered Germany and Poland, acting as liberators for millions of Jews held in concentration camps during World War II.
Vocabulary lists containing liberator
"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, Part I: Chapters 18-23
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1970 Nobel Peace Prize Speech: “One Word of Truth Outweighs the World” by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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Year of Impossible Goodbyes
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Example Sentences
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On Sept. 11, 1942, Hirsch, age 24, and nine other soldiers stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tuscon were in a B-24 Liberator on the return leg of a training flight to Nebraska.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025
The airman was the left waist gunner on a B-24D Liberator called “Queen Marlene” when it was attacked by German air forces near Équennes-Éramecourt, France.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023
William Still was a stationmaster for the Underground Railroad, and Harper, inspired by his work with fugitives, turned to writing poetry for abolitionist newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass’ Paper and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
Mr. Billings deployed to Italy in August 1944, tasked with flying the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber that he jokingly referred to as “the pregnant pig.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
In Boston, on January i, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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