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- DictionaryE·man·ci·pate/əˈmansəˌpāt/
verb
- 1. set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions: "the people were emancipated from the shackles of oppression"
EMANCIPATE definition: 1. to give people social or political freedom and rights 2. to give people social or political…. Learn more.
: the act or process of emancipating. emancipationist. i-ˌman (t)-sə-ˈpā-sh (ə-)nist. 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.
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 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.
the process of giving people social or political freedom and rights: women's/ female emancipation. black emancipation. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Human rights. affirmative action. ageism. ageist. anti-discrimination. anti-feminism. desegregate. desegregation. discriminate. discrimination. distributive justice. feminism. feminist.
1. to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint. 2. ( often passive) to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality. 3. to liberate (a slave) from bondage. [C17: from Latin ēmancipāre to give independence (to a son), from mancipāre to transfer property, from manceps a purchaser; see manciple] eˈmanciˌpated adj
5 days ago · 1. to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint. 2. (often passive) to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality. 3. to liberate (a slave) from bondage. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
