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- DictionaryE·man·ci·pat·ed/əˈmansəˌpādəd/
adjective
- 1. free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated: "emancipated young women"
The meaning of EMANCIPATE is to free from restraint, control, or the power of another; especially : to free from bondage. How to use emancipate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Emancipate.
Emancipated definition: not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.. See examples of EMANCIPATED used in a sentence.
verb (used with object) , e·man·ci·pat·ed, e·man·ci·pat·ing. to free from restraint, influence, or the like. to free (a person) from bondage or slavery. Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over.
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.
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.
