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- DictionaryE·man·ci·pat·ed/əˈmansəˌpādəd/
adjective
- 1. free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated: "emancipated young women"
to free a person from another person’s control. (Definition of emancipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of emancipate. emancipate. The event has since been emancipating people's minds from thousands of years of oppression and self-enclosure. From TIME.
not limited socially or politically: We live in more emancipated times. The 20s and 60s are often regarded as the most emancipated decades. Synonym. liberated (NOT TRADITIONAL) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Freedom to act. (as) free as a bird idiom. agency.
to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social controls that limit what they can do synonym free. be emancipated Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. be emancipated from something They felt they had at last been emancipated from their father’s control. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
As a legal term, if a child is emancipated, he or she is declared independent from parental control. Definitions of emancipate. verb. free from slavery or servitude. synonyms: manumit. see more. verb. give equal rights to; of women and minorities. synonyms: liberate.
to free a person from another person’s control. (Definition of emancipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of emancipate. emancipate. Together they emancipated the art of experiment from being a mere craft activity and endowed it with the status of a science. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Emancipated means "free from restraints." When someone is set free from traditional restrictions, the kinds of limitations that society puts on a person, that person can be described as emancipated.
noun. Did you know? The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, ordered that enslaved people living in rebellious territories be released from the bonds of ownership and made free people—their own masters.
