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  lib

  noun

  liberation.
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  lib.

  abbreviation

  book.
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  Lib.

  abbreviation

  Liberal.

lib

¹ American  

[lib] / lɪb /

noun

Informal.

1. liberation.

   women's lib; gay lib.

2. a libber.

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lib. ² American  

abbreviation

1. book.

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lib. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. librarian.

2. library.

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Lib. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Liberal.

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lib. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. librarian

2. library

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Lib. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Liberal

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lib ³ British  

/ lɪb /

noun

1. informal short for liberation

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Etymology

Origin of lib¹

First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening

Origin of lib.²

From the Latin word liber

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Example Sentences

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It hasn’t been popular to lib out for a long time.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

But she is keen to clear something up about possibly her most famous ad lib - "enter" - which she often used to hype up the energy during live performances.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

“My character is like an early bird of women’s lib, which Bella becomes then too.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

Williams says working on the show was fun because of the cast chemistry, and the license to ad lib at times to make scenes funnier felt “very fulfilling.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

Dad had a good sense of theater, and he’d try to time this apparent ad lib so that it would coincide with the change in traffic.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

"It's very ad lib. So you're never really able to simulate what's going to happen."

From US News ● Nov. 5, 2015

Senior Account Manager - Digital Marketing Agency ad lib. windsor, berkshire. £27k - £35k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010

UK USA UK Jobs in media Deputy Editor - B2C ad lib. this is a great opportunity for a talented deputy…. £20k - £25k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010

Digital Communications Executive ad lib. cheltenham, gloucestershire. £22k - £25k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010

The following remarkable passage from one of the lost writings of Porphyry relative to the Christians, is preserved by Augustin in his Treatise De Civit. lib. xix. cap.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

“I’m serious, Lib. If anything goes wrong, my parents’ll never let me leave home again. Ever.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Compare Horace's description of the latter goddess, Lib. i.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge

Of this king and his learning arose Lib. de Magic. success. lib.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (1 of 8) From the Time That It Was First Inhabited, Vntill the Time That It Was Last Conquered: Wherein the Sundrie Alterations of the State Vnder Forren People Is Declared; And Other Manifold Observations Remembred by Raphael Holinshed

But it seems most likely, as we have said, that embalming first arose from physical and sentimental considerations naturally operating, rather than from any 8 Lib. iii. cap.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

Further particulars of her are related by Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana, Lib. ii, cap.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel Garrison Brinton

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