Liberal party

American  

noun

1. a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.

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Liberal Party British  

noun

1. one of the former major political parties in Britain; in 1988 merged with the Social Democratic Party to form the Social and Liberal Democrats; renamed the Liberal Democrats in 1989

2. one of the major political parties in Australia, a conservative party, generally opposed to the Labor Party

3. one of the major political parties in Canada, generally representing viewpoints between those of the Progressive Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party

4. any other party supporting liberal policies

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Example Sentences

"We're trying, actually, to get rid of screens as much as possible," says Joar Forsell, an education spokesperson for the Liberal party whose leader is Sweden's education minister.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

But without a clear frontrunner, the Liberal party will have to try to regroup in the coming days - as well as develop a new strategy to win back the voters they lost.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

Peter Dutton, the Liberal party leader, also lost his own seat of Dickson, which he had held for the past 24 years.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

Senior advisers have hailed her ability to work a room of either seven or 700, and she has long held ambitions to run for Liberal party leader, close friends told Canadian magazine Macleans.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

His election shows what the unity of the Liberal party must have been.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles