liber
noun
liber
1 American
[lahy-ber]
/ ˈlaɪ bər /
noun
Botany.
liber
2
American
[lahy-ber, li-ber ]
/ ˈlaɪ bər, ˈlɪ bɛr /
noun
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libri,
plural
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libers
plural
Liber
3
American
[lahy-ber]
/ ˈlaɪ bər /
noun
liber
British
/ ˈlaɪbə /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of liber1
1745–55; < Latin: bark; akin to leaf
Origin of liber2
< Latin: book, originally bark; see liber 1
Example Sentences
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A friend described him as a “true believer,” devoted to the mission of Special Forces: De oppresso liber, to free the oppressed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Registered the within manumission at full length, this eleventh day of July, 1766, in liber D.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2015
In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical.
From Time Magazine Archive
In woody stems, whenever a new layer of wood is formed, some new liber or inner bark is also formed outside of it.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Liber said at least 25 villages will be demolished to make way for it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“He would go back and make sure every little item, every expression on the face, every single thing was just done, fast,” Liber said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
The following year, Les invited Liber to march in Selma, Ala. The trips affected him deeply, his brother said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
State business license information shows Nommensen is the co-owner of Liber Construction in Spanaway, and the business address listed for the company is the same as Nommensen’s last known address included in charging documents.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Though this sequence is the source of Fibonacci’s fame, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci had a much more important purpose than animal husbandry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The last book which bears his imprint is apparently “Geberi philosophi ac alchimistæ maximi, de Alchimia, libri tres,” March, 1529.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. (William) Roberts
The Bibliotheca pontificia is introduced with the following heading: In intima et ultima secretiori bibliotheca ubi libri sunt pretiosiores.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
In the second Punic war, the senate had commanded the surrender of the libri vaticini or precationes, and any written art of sacrificing.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Like the pontifices, the augurs also had their books, libri augurales.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
His collected poems, Otiorum libri sex, were printed in 1625.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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