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    e·man·ci·pat·ed
    /əˈmansəˌpādəd/

    adjective

    • 1. free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated: "emancipated young women"

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  2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    1. : to free from restraint, control, or the power of another. especially : to free from bondage. 2. : to release from parental care and responsibility and make sui juris. 3. : to free from any controlling influence (such as traditional mores or beliefs) emancipator. i-ˈman (t)-sə-ˌpā-tər. noun. emancipatory. i-ˈman (t)-sə-pə-ˌtȯr-ē. adjective.

  3. www.dictionary.com › browse › emancipatedEMANCIPATED Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com

    Emancipated definition: not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.. See examples of EMANCIPATED used in a sentence.

  4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    free from another person’s control, or free from social or political limitations:

  5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › emancipatedEmancipated - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com

    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.

  6. www.dictionary.com › browse › emancipateEMANCIPATE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com

    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. Discover More. Other Words From. e·man·ci·pa·tive adjective. e·man·ci·pa·tor noun. non·e·man·ci·pa·tive adjective.

  7. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    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.

  8. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emancipationEmancipation Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    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.

  9. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryEMANCIPATED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    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.

  10. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com

    If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

  11. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishemancipate verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

    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.