emancipated

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

e·man·ci·pate

(ĭ-măn′sə-pāt′)

tr.v. e·man·ci·pat·ed, e·man·ci·pat·ing, e·man·ci·pates

1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.

2. Law To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.

[Latin ēmancipāre, ēmancipāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + mancipāre, to sell, transfer (from manceps, mancip-, purchaser; see man- in Indo-European roots).]

e·man′ci·pa′tive, e·man′ci·pa·to′ry (-pə-tôr′ē) adj.

e·man′ci·pa′tor n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Adj.

emancipated - free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"

liberated

free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"

emancipated

adjective liberated, free, released, independent, unconstrained West was the only daughter of an emancipated slave.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Translations

frei

émancipé

emancipated

[ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd] ADJ [women, slaves] → emancipado (fig) → libre

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

emancipated

[ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd] adj (= liberated) [woman, minority group] → émancipé(e); [slave] → affranchi(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

emancipated

adj woman, outlook → emanzipiert; slave → freigelassen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

References in classic literature ?

"Of Hazard"--that is the oldest nobility in the world; that gave I back to all things; I emancipated them from bondage under purpose.

View in context

It was the cry of the prophet who already hears emancipated humanity roaring and swarming; who beholds in the future, intelligence sapping faith, opinion dethroning belief, the world shaking off Rome.

View in context

I know this is an illusion; that these seeming men and women about me are indeed men and women,--men and women for ever, perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic Law,-- beings altogether different from the Beast Folk.

View in context

Think what the word "Paris" means to the emancipated intellect, to the political government, to the humanised morals, of the world; not to speak of the romance of its literature, the tradition of its manners, and the immortal fame of its women.

View in context

"Now El Emanu!" slowly and with upturned eyes ejaculated the trio, as, letting go their hold, the emancipated porker tumbled headlong among the Philistines, "El Emanu!-God be with us it is the unutterable flesh!"

View in context

It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before.

View in context

They are both specimens of the emancipated young American girl--practical, positive, passionless, subtle, and knowing, as you please, either too much or too little.

View in context

I reminded the audience of the peril which surrounded this self- emancipated young man at the North,--even in Mas- sachusetts, on the soil of the Pilgrim Fathers, among the descendants of revolutionary sires; and I ap- pealed to them, whether they would ever allow him to be carried back into slavery,--law or no law, con- stitution or no constitution.

View in context

Age has emancipated you; you no longer even stand in need of my consent.

View in context

In the meantime the captain addressed himself steadily to the business of his ship, scorning the holiday spirit and useless pursuits of his emancipated messmates, and warning them, from time to time, not to wander away nor be out of hail.

View in context

The Fronde, which threatened to ruin monarchy, has emancipated it.

View in context

Sanderson in Anerley who is already one of the emancipated, so that I have a nucleus.